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by Toni Morrison (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus (6 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701175109
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701175108
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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A powerful novel.', Metro .'Breathtaking', Daily Mail .'Love is a brilliant book...Into a short narrative she [Toni Morrison] packs mystery, suspense and a multi-stranded tale told with extraordinary deftness', Financial Times


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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, 21 Sep 2004
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i found this a good read in that the language was evocative and thoughtful, the story has many layers and is therefore engaging (you have to think about what you are reading) and the characters are well drawn and alive! i shall read this book again some time in the future and for me this is the key factor in determining whether a book is worth it or not
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fat Stars, 13 April 2005
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The incredible aspect of Toni Morrison's writings is hat she is able to adress such important themes without being preachy. This story is essentialy about the relationship of two women, which is a prevalent situation throughout her earlier works of Sula and Beloved. As always in Morrison's novels, trouble is brooding and the play's finale certainly pays out. However, regardless of the scenes of action, the real beauty of this play is the inner monologues, beautifully crafted and hauntingly evocative of an age we can only live through the book's discourse. Toni Morison is a wonderful writer who has an innate skill of using the right word for the right situation, and her imagery is contagious. I found myself saying 'fat stars'from Beloved, a number of times. This is a well executed novel of a lyrical grandeur unreached by many other American writers that adress the same themes of race and sex.
The only pitfall find of Morrison's work, is her narration that suddenly changes from one character to another without explanation. This often means that one has to read back a few lines to get the thread of the transition, as not to be confused over the following chapter's journey.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Notes for a novel, 18 Jan 2004
Toni Morrison is by no means a writer of enormous repute in the UK and her status as Queen of the Novel in the US is largely unrecognised here. I'm not going to suggest that she is the Emperor's New Clothes, because there's much more to her than that. But this novel is little more than notes for a novel shuffled together and given a hard cover.

And that cover needs mention. One is reminded of the allegorical maze of association woven into portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. Morrison's bizarre photo on the back seems fraught with overworked imagery, designed to irritate and repel. Why the tasteless display of bejewelled accessories? Why does she lean in, face frozen in a stern, graceless half-smile? A game is being played with the reader before the book is even opened.

But inside is the disappointment. Unshuffle the chapters, write the vague, unfocused notes up into a story, or a novel, and you'd have something that really did talk to us of Love. She knows what she wants to say, certainly. Yes, there is race and gender for the zealots to get their teeth into and feel self-righteous about. But there is Love, too, and it's the sort of love that does not live within the boundaries that are acceptable to the more ferocious liberals who lionize Toni Morrison in America. There is an importantly non-judgemental air about the portrayal of relationships of all kinds lurking in here somewhere.

But Morrison seems preoccupied. She won't tell us the story straight out. She pussyfoots around, using silly devices from a bygone age of experimentalism (and more William S Burroughs than Virginia Woolf, more's the pity). We drift in and out of interior monologues, cut from past to present, sample communications with ghostly presences and so on. Occasionally, we get narrative, and character, and events. Sometimes it does even make sense. Sure, it's a sweeping saga of three generations of a family bla bla bla: the stuff of the 2-part TV movie. But it's there.

So why soes Morrison not write this story, instead of just publishing the notes? This would be a much better novel if she had.

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