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Love (2003) is the eighth novel by Toni Morrison. Written in Morrison's non-linear style, the novel tells of the lives of several women and their relationships to the late Bill Cosey. Cosey was a charismatic hotel owner, [1] and the people around him were affected by his life — even long after his death. The main characters are Christine, his ...
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye , was published in 1970.
Morrison's main inspiration for the novel was an account of the event titled "A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child" in an 1856 newspaper article initially published in the American Baptist and reproduced in The Black Book, an anthology of texts of Black history and culture that Morrison had edited in 1974. [1] The novel won the ...
Here are 13 more of Toni Morrison’s most powerful quotes. "If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." - 1981 speech before the Ohio ...
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, published in 2019 by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S., is a non-fiction book by Toni Morrison, in which are collected 43 pieces of writing, structured into three sections: "The Foreigner’s Home", "Black Matter(s)" and “God's Language". [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Novels by Toni Morrison" ... Love (Morrison novel) M. A Mercy; P. Paradise (Morrison ...
Song of Solomon, Morrison's third novel, was met with widespread acclaim, and Morrison earned the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1978. [3] Reynolds Price, reviewing the novel for The New York Times, concluded: "Toni Morrison has earned attention and praise. Few Americans know, and can say, more than she has in this wise and ...
The one who only needed to be told once by a teacher to open a book to a specific page. The teenager who drove strictly within the limits of her learner's permit. Even her pug, Gomez, seemed to ...