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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375409440
ISBN-139780375409448
eBay Product ID (ePID)2465206
Product Key Features
Book TitleLove : a Novel
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicPsychological, Contemporary Women, African American / General, Family Life, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorToni Morrison
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16.9 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-052737
Dewey Edition22
Reviews" 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) From the Hardcover edition., " 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), " 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), "Loveseduces 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 "Loveis 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…Loveis an elegantly shaped epic of infatuation, enslavement, and liberation: a rich and heartening return to Nobel-worthy form." -Kirkus(starred review), "Loveseduces 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 "Loveis 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…Loveis an elegantly shaped epic of infatuation, enslavement, and liberation: a rich and heartening return to Nobel-worthy form." -Kirkus(starred review) From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisMay, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida-even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces-a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial. This audacious exploration into the nature of love-its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread-is rich in characters, striking scenes, and a profound understanding of how alive the past can be. A major addition to the canon of one of the world's literary masters., From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. "A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not only of love but of racial politics." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.O8749L68 2003
