Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times
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 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*
Morrison is an extraordinary novelist
*New York Times*
We don't know quite how Toni Morrison does what she does, but we do
know we are left shaken as readers and, to a profound degree,
changed
*Washington Post*
Morrison has brought it all together: the poetry, the emotion, the
broad symbolic plan
*New York Times Book Review*
It is a tour de force of writing
*Independent on Sunday*
Nobel laureate Morrison creates another richly told tale that grapples with her ongoing, central concerns: women's lives and the African American experience. Morrison has created a long list of characters for this story that takes place in the all-black town of Ruby, Oklahoma, population 360, which was founded by freed slaves. In what could be seen as an attempt to create some of the same mysticism that was present in many of her previous works, Morrison alludes to Ruby's founding citizens, now ghosts, and only minimally focuses on the present generations that have let the founding principles of Ruby's forebears deteriorate. Paradise is an examination of the title itself and deliberately builds into a plot that is unexpected and explosive. This is Morrison's first novel since her 1993 Jazz, and it is well worth the wait. Highly Recommended for all collections. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/97.]‘Emily J. Jones, "Library Journal"
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 *
Morrison is an extraordinary novelist * New York Times *
We don't know quite how Toni Morrison does what she does, but we do
know we are left shaken as readers and, to a profound degree,
changed * Washington Post *
Morrison has brought it all together: the poetry, the emotion, the
broad symbolic plan * New York Times Book Review *
It is a tour de force of writing * Independent on Sunday *
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