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Paradise
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- Narrator
- Toni Morrison
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 12 September 2019
- Run Time
- 15 hours 19 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise.
Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. Starkly evoking the clashes that have bedevilled the American century: between race and racelessness; religion and magic; promiscuity and fidelity; individuality and belonging.
‘When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose’ Hilary Mantel, Spectator
‘Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the 20th century, to a place where it could finally embrace the subtleties and contradictions of the great stain of race which has blighted the republic since its inception’ Caryl Phillips, Guardian
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Critics Review
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Toni 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
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Morrison is an extraordinary novelist
New York Times
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We don't know quite how Toni Morrison does what she does, but we do know we are left shaken as readers and, to a profound degree, changed
Washington Post
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Morrison has brought it all together: the poetry, the emotion, the broad symbolic plan
New York Times Book Review
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It is a tour de force of writing
Independent on Sunday
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Entrancing
Guardian
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Deeply serious and unexpectedly beautiful
Harpers and Queen
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Compassionate, violent and magical
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Details
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- Narrator
- Toni Morrison
- Duration
- 15 hours 19 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 September 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473577626
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Politics
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. Starkly evoking the clashes that have bedevilled the American century: between race and racelessness; religion and magic; promiscuity and fidelity; individuality and belonging. ‘When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose’ Hilary Mantel, Spectator‘Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the 20th century, to a place where it could finally embrace the subtleties and contradictions of the great stain of race which has blighted the republic since its inception’ Caryl Phillips, Guardian BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
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