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Beloved
Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 0- 394-53597-9
$28.00
Set in post-Civil War Ohio,
Beloved is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who
has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living
death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has
borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron
eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in a small house on
the edge of town with her daughter, Denver; her
mother-in-law, Baby Suggs; and the disturbing, mesmerizing
ghost of her dead child, Beloved. Based on the true story of
a runaway slave who, at the point of recapture, kills her
infant daughter in order to spare her a life of slavery,
Beloved speaks to our experience as an entire
nation with a past of both abominable and ennobling
circumstance. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer
Prize for Beloved.
Birth of a
Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson
Case
Current Affairs/African-American Studies
ISBN: 0-679-75893-3
$15.00
Co-edited and introduced by Toni
Morrison, Birth of a
Nation'hood elucidates the
grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case. As they pertain to the
scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the
media are refracted through twelve powerful essays that have
been written especially for this book by such eminent
scholars as Patricia J. Williams, George Lipsitz, and
Ishmael Reed.
The Bluest
Eye
Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 0-679-43373-2
$25.00
The story of a black adolescent
girl's struggle in an America whose love for its blond,
blue-eyed children can devastate other children. Pecola
Breedlove prays for her eyes to turn blue--so that she will
be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her
world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare
at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its
fulfillment.
The Dancing
Mind
Essays/Literature
ISBN: 0-375-40032-X
$12.00
On the occasion of her acceptance of
the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November,
1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and
passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities,
of the reading/writing life in our time.
Jazz
Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 0-679-41167-4
$23.00
A story of violence and passion
set in Harlem in the 1920s. Joe Trace--in his fifties,
door-to-door salesman of beauty products--shoots to death
his teenaged lover of three months. At the funeral, his
determined, hard-working wife, Violet, herself a
hairdresser--who is given to stumbling into dark mental
cracks, and who talks mostly to birds--tries with a knife to
disfigure the corpse. Richly combining history, legend, and
reminiscence, Morrison captures the ineffable mood, the
complex humanity of black urban life.
The Nobel
Lecture in Literature, 1993
Fiction/Literature
ISBN:0-679-43437-2
$19.00
Lecture and speech of acceptance, upon
the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, delivered in
Stockholm on the seventh of December, 1993.
Paradise
Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 0-679-43374-0
$25.00
As the book begins deep in
Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop.
360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain,"
assault the nearby "Convent" and the women in it. From the
town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the
assault, Paradise
tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship
between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . .
. where random and organized evil erupted when and where it
chose." Deftly manipulating past, present, and future, and
through dreams, visions, memories, and sermons, this novel
of mysterious motives reveals the interior lives of the
town's citizens with astonishing clarity.
Playing in
the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0-679-74542-4
$9.00
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions
of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe,
Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic
reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary
tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and
individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the
existence of a black population that was manifestly
unfree--and that came to serve white authors as
embodiments of their own fears and desires.
Race-ing
Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence
Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
Current Affairs/African-American Studies
ISBN: 0-679-74145-3
$15.00
It was perhaps the most wretchedly
aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the
dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on
the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court
justice. Edited and introduced by Toni Morrison,
Race-ing Justice,
En-gendering Power brings
together eighteen provocative essays which explore not only
the racial and sexual but also the historical, political,
cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a
signal and revelatory moment in American history.
Song of
Solomon
Fiction/Literature
Knopf, ISBN: 0-394-49784-8
$18.95
Song of
Solomon
Everyman's Library, ISBN: 0-679-44504-8
$20.00
Song of Solomon begins with one of the most arresting
scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau
depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air,
while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground
and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as
another enters premature labor. The child born of that
labor, Macon Dead Jr. (known as Milkman), will eventually
come to discover, through his complicated progress to
maturity, the meaning of the drama that marked his birth. We
see Milkman grow up in his father's money-haunted,
death-haunted house, and move outward--through his profound
love and combat with his friend Guitar, through his exotic,
imprisoning affair with his love-blind cousin, Hagar, and
through his unconscious apprenticeship to his mystical Aunt
Pilate. And we follow him as he strikes out alone toward an
adventurous and crucial embrace of life.
Song of
Solomon won the National
Book Critics Circle Award and the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters Award.
Sula
Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 0-394-48044-9
$25.00
At the center of this novel--a
friendship between two women, a friendship that first
sustains, then injures. Set in a Midwestern black community
called The Bottom, the story follows two friends, Sula and
Nel, from childhood through their sharply divergent paths of
womanhood, to their eventual confrontation and
reconciliation.
Tar
Baby
Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 0-394-42329-1
$26.00
The story of the love affair
between a beautiful Sorbonne-educated black model, Jadine,
and a black American street man, Son, who represents
everything she both fears and desires. It sweeps from a
white millionaires's luxurious Caribbean estate to the
shimmering sophistication of Manhattan to the bedrock
realities of the American South. As the lovers strive to
hold and understand each other, as they experience the awful
weight of the separate worlds that have formed them--she
perceiving his vision of reality and of love an inimical to
her freedom, he perceiving her as the classic lure, the tar
baby set out to entrap him--all the mysterious elements, all
the highly charged threads of the story converge. Everything
that is at risk is made clear: how the conflicts and dramas
wrought by social and cultural circumstances must ultimately
be played out in the realm of the heart.
Box Set
The Collected Novels of Toni Morrison/The Bluest
Eye/Sula/Song of Solomon/Tar Baby/Beloved/Jazz
ISBN: 0-679-43436-4
$125
AUDIOBOOKS
The Bluest
Eye
Read by the author and Ruby Dee
Abridged, 2 Cassettes, 3 Hours
ISBN: 679-43474-7
$17.00
Jazz
Read by the author
Abridged, 2 Cassettes, 3 Hours
ISBN: 0-679-41193-3
$16.00
The Nobel
Lecture in Literature
30 Minutes
ISBN: 0-679-43437-2
$6.00
Paradise
Read by the author
Abridged, 4 Cassettes, 6 Hours
ISBN: 0-375-40179-2
$25.95
Song of
Solomon
Read by the author
Abridged, 2 Cassettes, 3 Hours
ISBN: 0-394-55038-2
$18.00
Sula
Read by the author
Unabridged, 4 Cassettes, 6 Hours
ISBN: 0-679-46072-1
$25.95
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Paradise
ISBN: 0-375-70217-2
$25.00
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