Luminarium Bookstore: Toni Morrison.

Works

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

"When slavery has torn apart one's heritage,
when the past is more real than the present,
when the rage of a dead baby can literally
rock a house, then the traditional novel is no
longer an adequate instrument. And so
Pulitzer Prize-winner Beloved is written in bits
and images, smashed like a mirror on the
floor and left for the reader to put together."
—Erica Bauermaister
Reviews of Beloved

The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison

"Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.
In her eleven years, no one had ever
noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she
thought, everything would be different.
She would be so pretty that her parents
would stop fighting. Her father would stop
drinking. Her brother would stop running
away. If only she could be beautiful. If
only people would look at her."—Back cover.
Reviews of The Bluest Eye

Jazz
by Toni Morrison

"Jazz is the story of a triangle of passion,
jealousy, murder and redemption, of sex
and spirituality, of slavery and liberation,
of country and city, of being male and
female, African American, and above all
of being human."—Back cover.
Reviews on Jazz

Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison

"In an effort to hide his southern, working class
roots, Macon Dead, an upper-class Northern
black businessman tries to insulate his family
from the danger and despair of the rank and file
blacks with whom he shares the neighborhood.
The plan leads his son, "Milkman"--a name he
earned after his mother nursed him well past the
proper age--onto a path exactly opposite the one
his father had hoped." —Amazon Books.
Reviews for Song of Solomon

Sula
by Toni Morrison

"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 ultimate confrontation
and reconciliation."—Back cover.
Reviews on Sula

Tar Baby
by Toni Morrison

Tar Baby is the story of the love affair between a
beautiful black model, molded by white culture,
and a black man who represents everything she
both fears and desires. It sweeps from a white
millionaire's luxurious Caribbean estate to the
shimmering sophistication of Manhattan to the
bedrock realities of the American southland.
This is not only a novel of hypnotic, lyrical beauty,
it is a revelation of all the shades of feeling and
the full spectrum of choices facing women and
men in a black-and-white world.—The Sleeve.
Reviews on Tar Baby

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison

"The author of Beloved explores the significance
of African Americans in the American literary imagination,
examining the works of Cather, Poe, Twain, Hawthorne,
and Melville to argue that American literature's central
characteristics are responses to an Africanist presence.
—Amazon Books.
Reviews on Playing in the Dark

Other

Conversations with Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations)
Danille Taylor-Guthrie, Editor
"These interviews beginning in 1974 reveal an artist
whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-
American experience and is fueled by cultural and
societal concerns. . . . From these interviews comes
a greater understanding of Toni Morrison's purpose
and the theme of love that streams through her fiction.
—Card Catalog.
Reviews on Conversations...

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