Tar Baby by Toni Morrison - ISBN: 9780099760214
Paperback
Love, race, and betrayal collide in a Caribbean mansion.

Tar Baby

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    9 January 1998

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Summary

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.

An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.

Into a white millionaire’s Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian—a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then there’s Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099760214
ISBN-10:0099760215
Author:Toni Morrison
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:9 January 1998
Weight:238g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Wonderful… A triumph * New York Times *Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her * Guardian *Deeply perceptive…Returns risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel * New York Times Book Review *Toni Morrison’s writing is a train that knows where it’s going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description * Sunday Times *Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability * New York Times *It takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships * Vogue *Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language…One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’ s story * Washington Post *Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose-She has the ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the hallmark of a genuine writer * Guardian *That rare commodity, a truly public novel… Morrison’ s genius lies in her uncanny ability to immerse you totally in the world she creates * Newsweek *Wise, beautiful, astonishing, absolutely breathtaking * St Louis Globe-Democrat *

About The Author

Toni Morrison

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.

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