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A Mercy
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
A Mercy
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Toni Morrison
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:176 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780099502548
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Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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Imprint |
Vintage
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Publication Date |
4 June 2009 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. 'A beautiful and important book' The Times On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blurred into the background and now at the age of eight she is uprooted from her family to begin a new life with a new master. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant, and the enigmatic Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck. Together these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutally unforgiving landscape of North America in the seventeenth century. 'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' Tayari Jones, New York Times BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Author Biography
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She 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 Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
ReviewsToni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don't seem to come close to explaining her * Guardian * A beautiful and important book * The Times * Powerful, elemental... The issues Morrison explores go to the root of what humanity is. They could not be more important * Guardian * Left me trembling at the sheer brilliance of its storytelling and the unassailable dignity of its purpose * Evening Standard * So enthralling that you'll want to read it more than once * Sunday Times *
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