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Toni Morrison - Home
Released: 03/05/2012
Chatto & Windus
The Nobel laureate and unstoppable writer of American epics is back, tackling momentous themes again in her ninth novel. This is serious stuff, as a Korean War veteran returns home to face the racism of small-town Georgia, and Morrison's piercing poetic gaze turns to the difficulties of homecoming for psychologically damaged US front-line soldiers.
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80 %
Scotsman“Morrison shows us instead the complexity of truth...” It is written, of course, in the weightless prose we have come to expect. Morrison leaves many narrative avenues abandoned to the reader’s speculation...
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80 %
The New York Times“Haunting, slender novel...” Ms. Morrison has found a new, angular voice and straight-ahead storytelling style that showcase her knowledge of her characters, and the ways in which violence and passion and regret are braided through their lives...
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75 %
The Telegraph“A quiet and unexpected violence...” The horrors threaded through the narrative lose none of their power for being only hinted at and Morrison’s writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page...
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80 %
The Spectator“There’s blood, and it’s everywhere...” As the story flashes back and forward one is left even further adrift for pages at a time. 1950’s Korea doesn’t seem so very far away from America in the era of the Civil Rights Movement...
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80 %
The Independent“Never loses humanity...” Like the best writers, Morrison has politics underpinning her prose. Class permeates her symbolism; the injustice of poverty, made worse by race and gender, weighs down her characters...
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80 %
Publishers Weekly“Beautiful and brutal...” Told in alternating third- and first-person narration, with Frank advising and, from time to time, correcting the person writing down his life story, the novel’s opening scene describes horses mating...
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60%
Guardian“Home barely begins before it ends...” Within this realistic framework, Morrison makes two gestures toward a more experimental sensibility. The first is the insertion of brief, italicised passages in which Frank narrates his own memories and argues with the narrator...
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