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Toni Morrison

2012145 pagesabout 2–3 hours
2012
first published
  • 2012Knopf · 145 pages · ENGISBN 9780307594167
  • 2012Chatto & Windus · 145 pages · ENGISBN 9780701186074
  • 2012Penguin Random House · 160 pages · ENGISBN 9781448138616
  • 2013Vintage · 145 pages · ENGISBN 9780307740915
  • 2013Vintage Canada · 145 pages · ENGISBN 9780307399731
  • 2013Penguin Random House · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780099555940
  • 2012BOURGOIS · 154 pagesISBN 9782267023831
  • 2012Knopf Canada · 160 pages · ENGISBN 9780307399724

America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood—and his home. -From Amazon.com

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Character focusSmall ensemble

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ThemesFamily

Content notes

  • Racismmoderateunreviewed

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