Paradise

Toni Morrison

eBook - 2007

The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem.“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But sevente...en miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Toni Morrison
Online Access
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB000TWUTXW
Release Date7/24/2007
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307388117
Release Date7/24/2007