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Paradise

by Morrison, Toni (Chloe Ardelia Wofford 1931-2019)

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0679433740
ISBN 13
9780679433743
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NY: Knopf, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.5". 318 pp. Black cloth boards w/gilt "TM" on front and lettering on spine. Deckled edge. Author photo by Kate Kunz. DJ design by Carol Devine Carson. Book printed in 1997. Type set in Electra, a typeface designed by W. A. Dwiggins (1880-1956). Composed b North Market Street Graphics. Printed and bound by r.R. Donnelley & Sons. Book designed by Virginia Tan. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, and unmarked. Shelf wear to DJ. Black spot on back side of DJ. Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women.
In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance.

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"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women."In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Paradise
Author
Morrison, Toni (Chloe Ardelia Wofford 1931-2019)
Format/Binding
Hardcover_cloth
Book Condition
Used - Collectible - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Quantity Available
2
Edition
1st Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0679433740
ISBN 13
9780679433743
Publisher
Knopf
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
1998

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