Recitatif
$22.38
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2022
Summary
Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us’ Bernadine Evaristo
Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls’ shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a protest. The two women are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem but, despite their conflict, the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784744786 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784744786 |
| Author: | Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 139mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
Recitatif is the only short story written by the powerhouse novelist … Morrison’s sharp-eyed treatment of race, racism, and racial hierarchies remains relevant, digging deep into the marrow of society’s maladies. * Literary Hub *
This smart slippery tale… [is] highly relevant to our times… [Recitatif] serves as a challenge to contemporary novels that prefer to take refuge in racial orthodoxy than unsettle it, as Morrison so brilliantly does here – Claire Allfree * Daily Mail *
A compelling exploration of race and relationships * i *
So thought-provoking you’ll want everyone you know to read it * Daily Mail, Summer Reads of 2022 *
Genius – Bernice McFadden, author of SUGAR * Guardian *
About The Author
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (Author)
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
Zadie Smith (Introducer)
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.
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