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| Original Title: | Paradise |
| ISBN: | 0452280397 (ISBN13: 9780452280397) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1999), Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (1999), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000) |
Toni Morrison
Paperback | Pages: 318 pages Rating: 3.8 | 22231 Users | 1030 Reviews
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"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma.Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.
In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.
List About Books Paradise
| Title | : | Paradise |
| Author | : | Toni Morrison |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Plume Printing (Oprah's Book Club) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 318 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1999 by Plume (Penguin Books Ltd) (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. African American. Literature |
Rating About Books Paradise
Ratings: 3.8 From 22231 Users | 1030 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books Paradise
Another Morrison read and as ever Im in awe of her rich prose, nuanced characters and multilayered narrative. Its the 1970s, and follows many characters during their time in the fictional, all-black town of Ruby as well as their lives before, and is a beautiful blend of classic storytelling and magic. I loved that aspect of Beloved and Morrison wields her subtle use of magical realism and mysticism just as artfully in Paradise..The opening line is so powerful, setting up the shocking events toin 2017, it was the year of virginia woolf. in 2018, it was the year of marcel proust. in 2019, it will be the year of the female nobel prize laureates. hurrah!AUGUST: toni morrison (1993 winner, two years after the last female winner, because "[in her novels], characterized by visionary force and poetic import, [she] gives life to an essential aspect of American reality".in an unexpected turn of events, this month became not only an opportunity to celebrate her nobel win but her entire career.
I swear, it's the most fulfilling when you read an author and you have ambiguous feelings towards them and their writing. But being an unbiased, fair, desperately enthusiastic reader; you come back to give it a second try and it will be with that second book that you make your definitive judgement towards the author either you like them or don't. You respect their writing and just can't get down with it or you think their writing is crap.I thought I didn't like Morrison. I respected her as I
From very, very many perspectives, Toni Morrison in her novel Paradise makes a sort of reconstruction of the social motives and religious drives of inhabitants of Ruby which have led to an act of violence described at the start of the novel. She does that eloquently, and somewhat mysterious en poetical. She demands quite some concentration from her readers, and she doesnt support the reader very much in seeking the connections between the fragmented narrative. And the reader needs a wide span of
I'll confess that, though I'm an adoring Morrison fan, I've avoided three novels (this one, Jazz, Tar Baby) because of the less-than-stellar things I've heard about them. (Not to mention I found Love tedious.) Well, I went in as a skeptic and I came out a believer.The first sentence, quoted again and again here on GR, really deserves another show: "They shot the white girl first." It's so perfect, so emblematic of Morrison's ability to write both elegant, haunting, ornate sentences, and--just as
Sometimes you have to hold up your hands as a reader and admit maybe you didnt do a book justice. I found Paradise really difficult to follow. Mainly this is due to there being no central character. The central character instead is a town called Ruby where only blacks live and are free of white legislation and a nearby building known as the convent. The awfulness of men and magical prowess of women is its theme. Well not quite but the divisions drawn here are not between blacks and whites but
This book was selected by one of my professors, an expert in African American literature who has published a couple of books of his own, for a 400-level college lit class. On the first day that we started this book, he walked in, sat it down on the table in front of him, and said, "I hadn't read this book in a while. I couldn't remember if I liked it or not. I don't think I do."A week later, I knew I didn't. Morrison has long been lauded for her evocative lyricism, but here more so than in her
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