About “Tar baby”
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner “Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The Washington Post 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. (Description courtesy of Penguin Random House.)
Awards & honors
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Winner — Nobel Prize (1993)
Praise for “Tar baby”
“Deeply perceptive. . . . Return[s] risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel.”
“Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability.”
“Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.”
Book details
- Published
- 1981
- Latest edition
- 1981 · ISBN 9781400033447
- ISBN
- 9781400033447
Frequently asked questions
How many pages is Tar baby?
Tar baby by Toni Morrison has 305 pages.
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