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FICTION

Released: March 12, 1981

TAR BABY

by Toni Morrison

"Scouring contemporary insights—in prose as lithe and potent as vines in a rain forest."

Morrison's fine-tuned, high-strung characters this time—black and white Americans caught up together in a "wide and breezy" house on a Caribbean island—may lack the psychic wingspread of Sula or Milkman of Song of Solomon. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Sept. 1, 1977

SONG OF SOLOMON

by Toni Morrison

"The gut-soul of Roots, with which this will be recklessly, inevitably linked, and a handsome display of a major talent."

"When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you die." Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Jan. 1, 1973

SULA

by Toni Morrison

In a neighborhood where pain — "adult pain that rested somewhere under the eyelids" — is as pervasively omnipresent as the loveliness of May's green shade trees, death and its omens can be accepted as another face of God. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Oct. 29, 1970

THE BLUEST EYE

by Toni Morrison

"A skillful understated tribute to the fall of a sparrow for whose small tragedy there was no watching eye."

This soil," concludes the young narrator of this quiet chronicle of garrotted innocence, "is bad for all kinds of flowers. Read full book review >

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