FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"A novel that illuminates truths that its characters may not be capable of articulating."
FICTION
Released: Nov. 14, 2008
"Better seen as a lengthy prose poem than a novel, this allusive, elusive little gem adds its own shadowy luster to the Nobel laureate's shimmering body of work."
Abandonment, betrayal and loss are the somber themes of this latest exploration of America's morally compromised history from Morrison (
Love, 2003, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 28, 2003
"One of Morrison's finest, and a heartening return to Nobel–worthy form."
A black patriarch's obsessive domination of the many women in his life is relentlessly scrutinized in the 1993 Nobel winner's intricately patterned eighth novel.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 15, 1998
"Not perfect—but a breathtaking, risk-taking major work that will have readers feverishly, and fearfully turning the pages."
The violence men inflict on women and the painful irony of an "all-black town" whose citizens themselves become oppressors are the central themes of Morrison's rich, symphonic seventh novel (after Jazz, 1992, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 21, 1992
"In all, a lovely novel—lyrical, searching, and touching."
Morrison, in her sixth novel, enters 1926 Harlem, a new black world then ("safe from fays [whites] and the things they think up"), and moves into a love story—with a love that could clear a space from the past, give a life or take one.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 16, 1987
Morrison's truly majestic fifth novel—strong and intricate in craft; devastating in impact.
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