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Paradise.
by Toni Morrison
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0679433740
- ISBN 13
- 9780679433743
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About This Item
New York: Random House/Alfred A. Knopf, 15-Jan-98. Second Printing Before Publication. Hardcover. Like New. NICE BOOK! SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. MILD WEAR ON BLACK DUSTJACKET, CLEAN PAGES, NO MARKINGS. Description: Toni Morrison writes about a group of African Americans who found a community in Oklahoma called Ruby. When the outside world threatens the peace of the community, five women whose lives are particularly troubled take refuge in an abandoned convent, which alienates the men of the town. In this novel, which pits men against women and presents women as victims, the result is violence--but not despair. In the end, Morrison remains hopeful. A New York Times"""" Notable Book for 1998.""""
Synopsis
"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women."In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05137
- Title
- Paradise.
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Edition
- Second Printing Before Publication
- ISBN 10
- 0679433740
- ISBN 13
- 9780679433743
- Publisher
- Random House/Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 15-Jan-98
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