Description
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/12/1981
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.63h x 5.91w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9780394423296
ISBN10: 0394423291
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/12/1981
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.63h x 5.91w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9780394423296
ISBN10: 0394423291
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
About the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.