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Home is the tenth novel by the American author Toni Morrison, originally published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf. Set in the 1950s, Morrison's Home rewrites the narrative of the time period. The novel tells the story of 24-year-old war veteran Frank Money as he navigates America amidst his trauma from serving in the Korean War . [ 1 ]
Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison.Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
Morrison wrote books for children with her younger son, Slade Morrison, who was a painter and a musician. Slade died of pancreatic cancer on December 22, 2010, aged 45, [ 27 ] [ 86 ] when Morrison's novel Home (2012) was half-completed.
As the 50th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death approaches comes word that HarperCollins will release “The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts and Lyrics.” The 600 ...
The Bluest Eye is the first novel written by American author Toni Morrison and published in 1970. It takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression.
Decades later, in 2021, Morrison’s sister, Anne Morrison Chewning, released a collection of Morrison’s writing, poems and unreleased songs in the book The Collected Works of Jim Morrison. The ...
Toni Morrison was seen as a surprise choice. The strongest candidates according to the Swedish press were Hugo Claus, a Belgian poet, playwright and filmmaker who writes in Flemish; Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet who has been a front-runner for some time (awarded eventually on 1995); Bei Dao, a Chinese poet in exile; and the Syria-born Lebanese poet Adonis.
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