Paradise

Zusatztext Paperback edition of Toni Morrison's acclaimed novel. At its heart! (Paradise)is the story of a brutal attack on four young women in a convent in themid-1970s. But it is a tale that also examines race! religion! freedomand promiscuity. "(Paradise) is her most satisfying and most disturbingbook to date! a smallish work of enormous philosophical dimensions! a meditationon the making and unmaking of communities" (Scotland On Sunday). 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 Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with clarity. Zusammenfassung Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with clarity.

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison, Morrison Toni
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.03.1999
• EAN: 9780099768210
• ISBN: 978-0-09-976821-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, Oklahoma, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Political / legal thriller, Relating to African American people, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, FICTION / African American & Black / Women, Relating to African American / Black American people