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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin Of Others.
In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison's fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books: Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy. Morrison also writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin colour to reveal character or drive narrative.
Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century. National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Morrison's most personal work of nonfiction to date.
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Beloved (Hardcover)
Toni Morrison
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A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel,
from the great Toni Morrison. Sethe is now miles away from Sweet
Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years.
Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there,
Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the
daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a
single word, 'Beloved'. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all,
love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece
and best-known work. 'An American masterpiece' A. S. Byatt 'Toni
Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a
heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and
should be read by all' Margaret Atwood, New York Times **One of the
BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND
CLASSICS: Beautiful editions of great books to last a lifetime
Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize
recipient Toni Morrison’s eight children’s books, cowritten
with her son, are collected in one hardcover volume for the first
time in this beautiful keepsake treasury with a foreword by Oprah
Winfrey! The three Who’s Got Game books slyly and exuberantly
retell some of Aesop’s fables. Three of the stories feature
illustrations by Pascal Lemaitre: The Ant or the Grasshopper?
examines friendship, betrayal, and survival while The Lion or the
Mouse? takes a hilarious, subversive look at bullying and ego, big
and small, and The Poppy or the Snake? shows how an accidental
injury spirals into a battle of wills. In The Tortoise or the
Hare?, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, slow and steady wins the
race…or does it? Peeny Butter Fudge, also illustrated by Joe
Cepeda, celebrates the relationship between three kids and their
Nana. Nana can take an ordinary afternoon and make it extra
special! Nap time, story time, and playtime are transformed by
fairies, dragons, dancing, and pretending—and then mixing and
fixing yummy, yummy fudge just like Nana and Mommy did not so many
years ago. A lot can happen when Nana is left in charge! Little
Cloud and Lady Wind features artwork by Sean Qualls and follows
Little Cloud, who likes her own place in the sky. Away from the
other clouds, the sky is all hers. Can Lady Wind show Little Cloud
the power of being with others? Shadra Strickland’s charming
illustrations illuminate Please, Louise. One gray afternoon, Louise
makes a trip to the library. With the help of a new library card
and through the transformative power of books, what started out as
a dull day turns into one of surprises, ideas, and curiosity! This
engaging picture book celebrates the wonders of reading, the
enchanting capacity of the imagination, and, of course, the
splendor of libraries. Toni Morrison’s first book for children,
The Big Box, illustrated by Giselle Potter, introduces three feisty
children who show grown-ups what it really means to be a kid.
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Love (Paperback)
Toni Morrison
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VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling,
mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark
side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. A haunting
and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning
author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L -
all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings
for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious
vision from a master storyteller on the nature of love - its
appetite, its sublime possession, and its consuming dread - is rich
in characters and dramatic events, and in its profound sensitivity
to just how alive the past can be. Sensual, elegiac and
unforgettable, Love ultimately comes full circle to that indelible,
overwhelming first love that marks us forever. Winner of the
PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction 'Love is
her best work...a slender but mesmerising tale' Evening Standard
The Bluest Eye chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty as the novel moves toward a savage but poignant resolution.
'An American masterpiece' AS Byatt WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sethe is now miles away
from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many
years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place
there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child,
the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a
single word, 'Beloved'. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all,
love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece
and best-known work. Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni
Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in
celebration of her life and work. 'The literary titian we must
never stop learning from' Metro Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award
for achievement in American fiction
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony.
The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.
"Effective Staff Training in Social Care" provides a theoretical
framework for training and professional development, focusing on
group learning in a social care context. It tackles the tensions
and dilemmas of those engaged in training amidst a climate of
change and a mixed economy of welfare and examines how these
influence both the trainer and the learner.
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Beloved (Paperback)
Toni Morrison
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Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize
winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in
contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS
Byatt It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an
end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her
former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby
daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns
as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love.
Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty,
Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece. 'Toni Morrison was
a giant of her times and ours..."Beloved," is a heartbreaking
testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by
all' Margaret Atwood, New York Times 'The literary titan we must
never stop learning from' Metro Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award
for achievement in American fiction **One of the BBC's 100 Novels
That Shaped Our World**
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty.
Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown
eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond
hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit
in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to
disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful
examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni
Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about
race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have
always characterized her writing.
Song of Solomon is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned to escape the tyranny of his father. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group of poor blacks, Macon goes home to the South, lured by tales of buried family treasure. His journey leads to the discovery of something more valuable than gold - his past. Yet the truth about his origins and his true self is not fully revealed to Macon until he and Guitar meet once again in powerful, and deadly confrontation.
As girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's discoveries and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is the story of the fear that makes people accept self-pity; the fear that will not countenance escape and that justifies itself through myth and legend. Sula herself is cast as a witch and demon by the people who resent her strength. They attack her with the most pervasive weapon of all, the weapon of language and story. But Sula is a woman of power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down.
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Gnade (Paperback)
Toni Morrison
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding
novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as
intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and
escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.
She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where
so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by
the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is
engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and
suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved""is a towering achievement.
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The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
Toni Morrison; Introduction by Candice Carty-Williams
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Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known
novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life
and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR
OF QUEENIE Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so
that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond,
blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds
in her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come true.
Pecola's life is about to change in other painful and devastating
ways. A powerful interrogation of what it means to conform to an
idea of beauty, The Bluest Eye asks vital questions about race,
class and gender and remains one of Toni Morrison's most
unforgettable works.
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled
himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of
his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly
imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story
as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez. As she
follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's
origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and
seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized
black world.
This handbook is designed to help supervisees understand the
process of clinical supervision sessions. The text ensures that
supervisees are as prepared for and informed about supervision as
their supervisors, and stresses the importance of a partnership
approach. Making the Most of Supervision presents ideas and
information from a different perspective to most other titles on
supervision, is an ideal complement to Pavilion's bestselling Staff
Supervision in Social Care and is to be used in conjunction with
Strength to Strength.
"Effective Staff Training in Social Care" provides a theoretical
framework for training and professional development, focusing on
group learning in a social care context. It tackles the tensions
and dilemmas of those engaged in training amidst a climate of
change and a mixed economy of welfare and examines how these
influence both the trainer and the learner.
Written by a multi-disciplinary group of leading practitioners,
Sexual Offending Against Children provides an account of the
practice, policy and management issues involved in the assessment
and treatment of adult and adolescent sexual offenders against
children. Written for practitioners from all disciplines concerned
with this area of work, it is underpinned by a strong theoretical
base, giving a practical and detailed description of the management
of sexual offenders, as well as the potential impact on service
providers.
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become
something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel,
Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who
meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their
devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a
dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a
pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But
their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal--or does it end?
Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula" "is a work that
overflows with life.
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