Love (Paperback) ~ Toni Morrison (Author) Cover Art

Love (Paperback)

By: Toni Morrison (Author)


List Price: $13.95
Tower Price: $9.99
You Save: $3.96 (29%)
Add to BagAdd to Bag Click to go directly to the checkout.
This item qualifies for FREE Shop N' Save Shipping for orders over $25. Check individual shipping price. *Some Restrictions Apply.
Availability: In Stock
Also Available in: [Audio] | [Hardcover]
Share This:
Add To KaboodleAdd To Kaboodle  Submit To Digg!Submit To Digg!  Share On FacebookShare On Facebook  Add to FavoritesAdd to Favorites  TwitterTwitter 

Product Description



Run a Quick Search on "Love" by Toni Morrison to Browse Related Products:

Browse more products related to "Love"

Browse more products related to "Toni Morrison"


Review

"[Morrison] does her best writing about bad people, and her new novel, LOVE, hooray, has plenty of those. Morrison's image is so august it's easy to forget how lurid her fiction can be."

"[O]nce again, we are given a story about the long relationship of two women who have known each other since childhood; once again, we are given a story about a dysfunctional family living in what was once a seeming paradise. All of Ms. Morrison's perennial themes are here: lost innocence and the hold that time past exerts over time present; the sufferings sustained by black women at the hands of black men; the fallout that social change and changing attitudes toward race can have on a small community; the possibility of redemption, if past grievances and hurts can somehow be left behind."

"LOVE is a rich parable about the damaging past as a demagogue ruling the present....Like a multifaceted stone, this intimate tale of seven women and one man is cut to refract the light as each of its characters sees it, turning their eyes round a reflecting center....[LOVE's] mercies may bring a wider audience into [Morrison's] contentious, rewarding universe."

"LOVE is not a novel for the fainthearted. Despite its brevity, it makes substantial demands on the reader's attention and memory....Morrison's artful approach to storytelling mirrors the ambiguity and fragmentation of real-life narratives, while at the same time suggesting the continuity of past and present, as the living and the dead cast their reflections into the pool of memory....Remarkable for its author's insight and humanity, LOVE offers rich rewards to the attentive reader."

"...LOVE is an elegantly shaped epic of infatuation, enslavement, and liberation: a rich symbolic mystery that grows steadily more eloquent and disturbing as its meanings clarify and grip the reader."

Publisher's note

From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is both the void in, and the centre of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces -- a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial.

This audacious vision of the nature of love -- its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread -- is rich in characters and striking scenes, and in its profound understanding of how alive the past can be.

A major addition to the canon of one of the world’s literary masters.

This is coast country, humid and God fearing, where female recklessness runs too deep for short shorts or thongs or cameras. But then or now, decent underwear or none, wild women never could hide their innocence -- a kind of pitty-kitty hopefulness that their prince was on his way. Especially the tough ones with their box cutters and dirty language, or the glossy ones with two-seated cars and a pocketbook full of dope. Even the ones who wear scars like Presidential medals and stockings rolled at their ankles can’t hide the sugar-child, the winsome baby girl curled up somewhere inside, between the ribs, say, or under the heart. -- from Love

Annotation

Toni Morrison's eighth novel centers on the Cosey family. Bill Cosey rose from poverty to become the millionaire owner of a prosperous resort. His son, Billy Boy, and Billy's daughter, Christine, have opposing views about the place. As years go by, Cosey's wealthy widow, Heed, struggles to keep the upper hand, and Billy's widow, May, becomes desperately afraid that what she has will be taken from her. Watching it all, as the generations succeed each other and the patriarchal influence of Bill Cosey continues to keep a hold on each family member, is his chef, a man known as L., who comments on the action. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.



Customer Reviews for "Love (Paperback)" by Toni Morrison (Author)

There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!

Submit your Review




Explore More Great Tower Sales & Specials



Tower.com BOOK Sales, Promotions & Special Features

Tower.com Popular Book Wiki Articles

  • The Paperback
    Learn more information on the paperback format before choosing which type of book to purchase.
  • The E-Book
    What exactly is an "electronic book?" Learn before you buy with Tower Wiki!
  • The Audio Book
    Do you prefer to read or be read to? Learn more about this increasingly popular book format.

Interact with Tower.com