Toni Morrison
Books
Tar Baby -- Toni Morrison, Paperback
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/08/2004
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.87h x 5.20w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781400033447
Review Citation(s):
Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/08/2004
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.87h x 5.20w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781400033447
Review Citation(s):
Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30
About the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.