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God Help the Child
Toni Morrison
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Description for God Help the Child
Paperback. 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 in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 268 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
The new novel from the author of Beloved The past has a hold like no other... 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 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 in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the ... Read more
The new novel from the author of Beloved The past has a hold like no other... 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 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 in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099555926
SKU
V9780099555926
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99-99
About Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack ... Read more
Reviews for God Help the Child
It is so beautifully written, full of perfect sentences...with such profound understanding of sympathy for her damaged characters... This is a wise, humane, enriching novel. If it should prove to be Toni Morrison's last, it is quite a finale
Allan Massie
Scotsman
Slim but powerful... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, ... Read more
Allan Massie
Scotsman
Slim but powerful... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, ... Read more