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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781400078479 
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Powells.com Staff Pick
For the female protagonists of Toni Morrison's slim but superb novel, the notion of love — benevolent or passionate — is centered around the charismatic deceased Bill Cosey. Kirkus describes this multi-layered, mysterious novel as "a heartening return to Nobel-worthy form." Olivia, Powells.com
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"Some people, who probably haven't read Morrison in the first place, have a tendency to dismiss her as a propagandist, a victimologist, a knee-jerk uplifter of the race. As a Nobel laureate and the most celebrated black writer in history, she makes a large and satisfying target. But while Love is indeed, in some large sense, a novel about the damaging legacy of slavery and racism, there is nothing simplistic anywhere in it. In no way does Morrison provide ideological excuses for Bill Cosey or the warring women around him, or apologize for the rape and murder, the petty torment and the money-grubbing and the malicious arson fires and the corruption that have poisoned the Cosey resort and the Cosey world." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com (read the entire Salon review)
"At times, Love reads like notes for a novel ? 'Christine accepted his invitation to dinner. By dessert they had plans . . . . As couplehood goes, it had its moments. As marriage goes, it was ridiculous' ? at other times like notes for a by now predictable lecture....The reader of a disassembled story reasonably expects to come across something solid, around which it coheres. What is there in Love? Homilies galore, of both the pragmatic and metaphorical kind..." James Campbell, Times Literary Supplement (read the entire TLS review)
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In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison's protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey's memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to outright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny, erotic, and heartwrenching.
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cainslegal, April 12, 2007 (view all comments by cainslegal)
This book is of such high literary calibre. Ms Morrison has taken a relatively basic storyline and seduces and intrigues the reader with its character's descriptive perspective, emotions, actions and actions' analysis. One then has to alert and remind one's self that not only is this a literary piece with which you could so easily identify with Cosey or indeed one of the women who shared his affections, legally or not; but the reader can almost understand and excuse some of the less morally acceptable behaviour therein.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781400078479
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Death
- Subject:
- Hotelkeepers
- Publication Date:
- January 2005
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 202
- Dimensions:
- 8.00x5.40x.60 in. .52 lbs.
- Notes:
initial new faves order 216
