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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext First published in 1992, this novel, which follows the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Beloved", is set in 1920s Harlem. The storylines focus on the ancestral history of a man and woman, and on the devastating consequences of the man's affair with a younger woman. Zusammenfassung Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse.

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison, Morrison Toni
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.12.2001
• EAN: 9780099750918
• ISBN: 978-0-09-975091-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Afroamerikaner; Vintage Paperbacks; Afroamerikaner
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Harlem, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1920 to c 1929, Relating to African American people, Generational sagas, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, US South, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century