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Original Title:	Paradise
ISBN:	0452280397 (ISBN13: 9780452280397)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1999), Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (1999), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000)

Paradise Paperback | Pages: 318 pages

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"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.

Identify Of Books Paradise

Title	:	Paradise
Author	:	Toni Morrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Plume Printing (Oprah's Book Club)
Pages	:	Pages: 318 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1999 by Plume (Penguin Books Ltd) (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. African American. Literature

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Reading a novel by Toni Morrison is an act of faith. She demands much from her language and her readers, but when that faith is rewarded, the effect is stunning.In "Paradise," her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, she has produced a story sure to generate volumes of feminist appraisal. This novel doesn't reach the emotional spikes of her best early work, but in a way it is more articulate than her rich, exhausting "Beloved" (1987). Oprah Winfrey has already tapped

Staggering, epic, layered, and incredibly engrossing. Nobody tells a story quite like Toni Morrison.Paradise, Morrison's first novel post-Nobel is a bit of a departure from her earlier output. Most noticeably, the breadth and scope of the story are among the most ambitious and complex of her career up to this point. The town of Ruby, Oklahoma and all its many inhabitants are the focus of this story and their relationship-turned-violent conflict with the women of the mysterious Convent, located

Staggering, epic, layered, and incredibly engrossing. Nobody tells a story quite like Toni Morrison.Paradise, Morrison's first novel post-Nobel is a bit of a departure from her earlier output. Most noticeably, the breadth and scope of the story are among the most ambitious and complex of her career up to this point. The town of Ruby, Oklahoma and all its many inhabitants are the focus of this story and their relationship-turned-violent conflict with the women of the mysterious Convent, located

" They shoot the white girl first, but the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are 17 miles from a town which has 90 miles between it and any other. Hiding places will be plentiful in the convent, but there is time, and the day has just begun. They are nine. Over twice the number of the women, they are obliged to stampede or kill, and they have the paraphernalia for either requirement--rope, a palm leaf cross, handcuffs, mace, and sunglasses, along with clean,

While my first attempt at reviewing this title, a task Im not sure anyone can do justice to, this is not my first reading of the novel. That was many moons ago back in graduate school. Fast forward two decades later and Im now teaching it to my oldest. Ive been looking forward to days like thisintroducing a deeply layered, complex, literary juicy piece and letting those critical thinking, analytical wheels in the mind begin to turn. If youve also never read this, then hopefully Ill inspire more

This book was selected by one of my professors, an expert in African American literature who has published a couple of books of his own, for a 400-level college lit class. On the first day that we started this book, he walked in, sat it down on the table in front of him, and said, "I hadn't read this book in a while. I couldn't remember if I liked it or not. I don't think I do."A week later, I knew I didn't. Morrison has long been lauded for her evocative lyricism, but here more so than in her

Paradise," by the great Toni Morrison was at times quite frustrating to read... The sudden changing, narrative at times made it difficult to follow... And yet at other times the writing is so sublime and hypnotic that it left me speechless. The last fifty pages are a clinic in what it takes to be a great writer.Steep in African-American history, mysticism, and religious beliefs, it is a novel of breathtaking scope and importance. The town of "Ruby" founded by nine black families escaping the