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Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement by Toni Morrison
20.00 NZD
Category: Literature
As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both provocative and timely, "Burn this Book" includes ...Show more
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: I | Reading Level: very good
"The new novel from the author of BelovedThe past has a hold like no other...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, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment ...Show more
Home by Toni Morrison
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 just physical scars. His Home and himself in it may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apat ...Show more
Home by Toni Morrison
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The powerful new novel from Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, that excavates the pain of a soldier's homecoming in 1950s America. It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And t ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
26.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
10.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Song of Soloman is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society ...Show more
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio- Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by ...Show more
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