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Paradise by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter culture and the politics of the late ...Show more
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of this novel. A novel of mysterious motives, it reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishin ...Show more
Please, Louise by Toni Morrison
Category: Picture Books
A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. On one gray afternoon, Louise makes a trip to the library. With the help of a new library card and through the transformative power of books, what starte ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over ...Show more
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone, slim Chatto hardback for the first time.In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other si ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
Song of Soloman is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabrie ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.Soon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight, Macon 'Milkman' Dead III is born. Brought up by his well-off black family to revere the ...Show more
Sula by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
"As girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's discoveries and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. SULA is the story of the fear that makes people accept self- ...Show more
Sula by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and ...Show more
Sula by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.As young girls in a poor but close-knit community, Nel and Sula are inseparable. But their paths as adults couldn't be more different- while Nel settles in town to rai ...Show more
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - a black American now living in Paris and Rom ...Show more