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Toni Morrison
A searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult.
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From the 1993 Nobel Prize-winner comes a novel so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry (The New York Times). First published in 1965, The Bluest Eye is…
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A story of Ian’s childhood and who he was before his struggles with schizophrenia. The age of Ian’s onset of the disease and what he had endured through his many…
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The New York Times Bestseller, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, professor of Humanities at Princeton University and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, a Pulitzer, and the…
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet…
Dura y tierna a la vez, La noche de los ninos esta aqui para dar energia a la voz de las mujeres y trazar caminos insolitos que nos liberen de…
Tony Morrison
This third edition of the best-selling book brings essential, newly-developed material, while retaining core material covering fundamentals of good supervision, group supervision and the emotional impact of work.
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An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than…
A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in…
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Into a white millionaire’s Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on…
This is the story of Macon Milkman Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards…
A Mercy is a powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and is almost like a prelude to that story, set…
The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe’s baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the…
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full…
Winner of the 1978 National Book Critic’s Circle Award for fiction. Beautiful and satisfying … an unusually wise and large-spirited book … consistently picturesque, charged with startling images .–Baltimore Sun
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistantly haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl.
From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort…
Relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection–a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art…
Morrison’s magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel–first published in 1987–brings the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of today and into the reader’s comprehension.
Originally collected in Confirmation: an anthology of African American women, edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka, published by William Morrow & Company, New York, in 1983 –Copyright page.
Morrison discusses the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor…
Published to coincide with the first anniversary of the most wretchedly aspersive racial and gender scandal of recent times–Thomas’ Senate confirmation hearings–these seventeen provocative essays by prominent and distinguished academicians–black…
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As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on…
First published in 1970 by Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel tells the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the nightmare at the heart of her…
When Frank joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears…
And they might never forget’ Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like…
A box set of Toni Morrison’s principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner).
Staring unflinchingly…
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author illuminates the Africanist presence shaping the American imagination in a landmark work of literary criticism. Morrison challenge(s) some of the most widely accepted generalizations about our…
Originally published in the United States in a slightly different form in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf…1997 –Title page verso.
This novel reates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world readers enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr.; the…
The arrival of an ominous black stranger disturbs the precisely choreographed interactions among the five people living in a beautiful house on a Caribbean island–a millionaire candy manufacturer, his wife…
Morrison’s eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant…
Toni Morrison’s fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles…
Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison’s latest New York Times -bestselling masterpiece centers on a powerful tragedy involving a mother and daughter, and reveals how acts of mercy have unforeseen consequences.
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines–from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their…
Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent. Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center is a friendship…
Toni Morrison, ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura 1993, parte de la realidad de una chiquilla desgraciada para tratar temas como el concepto de belleza impuesto, la voz femenina o…
The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.
AnnaMarie Christiansen
The first part of this book looks at how the instructor’s identity, whether students construct it as academically or culturally authoritative or both, plays an active role in the interpretation…
Barbara Kramer
Original edition published as Toni Morrison: Nobel prize winning author in 1996 –T.p. verso.