TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
“Love seduces with Toni Morrison’s signature lush prose and
colorfully complex, textured scenes of human longing, scheming,
suffering, and loss.”
-Lisa Shea, Elle
“It’s a dense, dark star of a novel, seemingly eccentric, secretly
shapely, … and with Morrison writing at the top of her game.”
-David Gates, Newsweek
“Haunting . . . In lyrical flashbacks, Morrison slowly, teasingly
reveals the glories and horrors of the past . . . Morrison has
crafted a gorgeous, stately novel.”
-Publisher’s Weekly
“Love is a profound novel. As a vivid painter of human emotions,
Morrison is without peer, her impressions rendered in an
exquisitely metaphoric but comfortably open style.”
-Brad Hooper, Booklist (starred and boxed review)
“A gorgeous deployment of enigmatic flashbacks…Love is an elegantly
shaped epic of infatuation, enslavement, and liberation: a rich and
heartening return to Nobel-worthy form.”
-Kirkus (starred review)
More a tapestry than a novel, Morrison's newest weaves the past into the present using perspectives as threads and voices as color. The author's soft voice forces listeners to pay close attention; even so, the novel's complex construction, coupled with her hushed tones, will have listeners reaching for "rewind" to capture the subtle details so important in Morrison's compositions. This audiobook is best suited for those prepared to concentrate closely and wait patiently as layer builds upon layer. The story opens in the 1930s on the Florida coast when L, who narrates the story from beyond the grave, sees Cosey holding his wife, Julia, in the ocean; L feels such waves of tenderness radiating off him that she signs on to his life forever and becomes both maid and chef at his hotel. The novel winds through the lives of Cosey's other women, including his granddaughter Christine and her best friend, Heed the Night Johnson. Cosey twirls them all around his little finger, abruptly and unapologetically marrying the 12-year-old Heed. Thread by thread, the novel builds as Cosey's women glitter around him, even after his death. Morrison leaves readers with the powerful realization: neither good nor evil, Cosey was simply a man. Simultaneous release with the Knopf hardcover (Forecasts, Sept. 1, 2003). (Oct.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
"Love seduces with Toni Morrison's signature lush prose and
colorfully complex, textured scenes of human longing, scheming,
suffering, and loss."
-Lisa Shea, Elle
"It's a dense, dark star of a novel, seemingly eccentric, secretly
shapely, ... and with Morrison writing at the top of her game."
-David Gates, Newsweek
"Haunting . . . In lyrical flashbacks, Morrison slowly, teasingly
reveals the glories and horrors of the past . . . Morrison has
crafted a gorgeous, stately novel."
-Publisher's Weekly
"Love is a profound novel. As a vivid painter of
human emotions, Morrison is without peer, her impressions rendered
in an exquisitely metaphoric but comfortably open style."
-Brad Hooper, Booklist (starred and boxed review)
"A gorgeous deployment of enigmatic flashbacks...Love is an
elegantly shaped epic of infatuation, enslavement, and liberation:
a rich and heartening return to Nobel-worthy form."
-Kirkus (starred review)
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