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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.
'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a
heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and
should be read by all'
‘I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in
the world. I believed her’
‘[Toni Morrison] led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty
of the language, and the power that was unleashed when that beauty
was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mind’
‘No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so
completely an understanding of the structures of power with
knowledge of the human heart’
‘Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American
experience that we have ever known’
‘Morrison is, to me, the best writer the English-speaking world has
ever seen’
‘Morrison’s legacy in commemorating slavery’s survivors will endure
and uplift for centuries to come'
‘Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every
paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I
know you, I see you, we are together’
‘I have never read anyone else like her . . . She was an opener of
doors, doors that seemed they might always be shut, doors shut so
tight they seemed not to be doors at all’
‘Her legacy is total excellence . . . she is magnificent, her
emotional intelligence is second to none and her bravery was equal
to her artistry’
Powerful is too tame a word to describe Toni Morrison's searing new novel of post-Civil War Ohio. Morrison, whose myth-laden storytelling shone in Song of Solomon and other novels, has created an unforgettable world in this novel about ex-slaves haunted by violent memories. Before the war, Sethe, pregnant, sent her children away to their grandmother in Ohio, whose freedom had been paid for by their father. Sethe runs too, but when her ``owners'' come to recapture her, she attempts to murder the children, succeeding with one, named Beloved. This murder will (literally) haunt Sethe for the rest of her life and affect everyone around her. A fascinating, grim, relentless story, this important book by a major writer belongs in most libraries. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all'
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