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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)

Toni Morrison
3.86/5 (24948 ratings)
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"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise 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 seventeen 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 will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.

In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.
Format:
Pages:
318 pages
Publication:
1999
Publisher:
Plume (Penguin Books Ltd)
Edition:
First Plume Printing (Oprah's Book Club)
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0452280397
ISBN13:
9780452280397
kindle Asin:
B000TWUTXW

Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)

Toni Morrison
3.86/5 (24948 ratings)
Read Download
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise 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 seventeen 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 will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.

In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.
Format:
Pages:
318 pages
Publication:
1999
Publisher:
Plume (Penguin Books Ltd)
Edition:
First Plume Printing (Oprah's Book Club)
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0452280397
ISBN13:
9780452280397
kindle Asin:
B000TWUTXW

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