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PARADISE
by Morrison, Toni
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy, as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0375702172
- ISBN 13
- 9780375702174
- Seller
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Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy, as issued. Proof. In this powerful work, four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the 1970s. Each of singular provenance, they together suggest the vicissitudes of the era, of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the counter culture, generational conflict. The inexorableness of the attack and the efforts to avert it lie at the heart of this book. In the original perfect bound wrappers, as issued. Publication date of January 15, 1998. Her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize and the third and final novel of the trilogy that included Beloved and Jazz.
Synopsis
"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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Details
- Bookseller
- Ed Smith Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ESB6785
- Title
- PARADISE
- Author
- Morrison, Toni
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy, as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375702172
- ISBN 13
- 9780375702174
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BLACK LITERATURE, NOBEL WINNER, PROOF, LITERATURE
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About the Seller
Ed Smith Books
Biblio member since 2009
Bainbridge Island, Washington
About Ed Smith Books
Ed Smith Books specializes in better condition modern literary first editions, signed books, photographic monographs, screen and theater related material and pop culture. We offer appraisals for books and photographs. We are located a short ferry ride from downtown Seattle, WA on Bainbridge Island. Since 1985 (ABAA since 1995). Two authors we specialize in are Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson. Open by appointment.
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