An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then there's Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - a young American black of extreme beauty from small-town Florida. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and ...
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An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then there's Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - a young American black of extreme beauty from small-town Florida. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women. Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction 'Toni Morrison was a quintessential, unabashedly American writer. Like her fellow giant, Walt Whitman, her work was, above all, audacious. She seized the landscape with a flourish and wove it, unwove it and put it back together' Bonnie Greer, Guardian
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Good. Size: 7x1x5; Ships within 24 hours! Trade paperback, creasing to spine but pages are tight, tear to top of spine, corner/edge wear, creasing, scuffing, tanning.
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Collectible: Good. Size: 112x16x80; Paperback. Spine creased. Light wear. Age toning to pages. Text is clean, unmarked. First Plume paperback printing. Full number line: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (Shelf location: E1) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof mailers and then boxed to prevent damage during transit.
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VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. 7 x 1 x 5 inches. pp. 305. Publisher: Plume; 1st Edition (April 1, 1982) Language: English Mass Market SOFTCOVER: 305 pages ISBN-10: 0452253268 ISBN-13: 978-0452253261 Item Weight: 8 OUNCES Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 5 inches. Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrisons reinvention of the love story. 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.
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Very Good. First edition thus. Trade paperback. Pages faintly tanned, covers slightly rubbed, spine with reader's creases, about very good. A Plume Book. Author's fourth novel.
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