In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992...
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Author: Furman, JanSummary:
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Author: Toni MorrisonSummary:
Seth, proud and beautiful, escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage - from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit. Set in rural Ohio several years after...
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Author: Nafisi, AzarSummary:
Structured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi Azar explores the most probing questions of our time...
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Author: Davis, Angela Y.Summary:
Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than fifty years. This autobiography, first...
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Author: Midal, FabriceSummary:
Fabrice Midal teaches the power of trusting in our own thoughts and strengthening our connection to humanity, as he guides us through the inspirational ideas of forty writers, artists, thinkers,...
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Author: Morrison, ToniSummary:
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet...
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Author: Morrison, ToniSummary:
The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's...
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Author: Wachtel, EleanorSummary:
Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected and sought-after interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's 25 year anniversary, presents many of her best...
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Author: Morrison, ToniSummary:
Morrison narrates for three hours and lays out before us the complex lives and backgrounds of four generations of black family life in the south. Central is the character Milkman--an unfortunate...
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Author: Morrison, ToniSummary:
In this 1983 short story-the only short story Morrison ever wrote-we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood's work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing...
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Author: Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal...
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Author: Jones, Jr., RobertSummary:
Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each...
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Author: Bauer, Margaret DonovanSummary:
There are two portrayals of Scarlett O’Hara: the widely familiar one of the film Gone with the Wind and Margaret Mitchell’s more sympathetic character in the book. In A Study of Scarletts,...
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Author: Hurston, Zora NealeSummary:
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary...
Genre: Essays