Author: Toni Morrison
Translator: Seon-hyeong Kim
Publisher: Deulnyeok
Hardcover | 316 pages | 220*150mm
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About This Book
The first page of Toni Morrison's novel Love is a soft introduction to a
narrator who pulls you in with her version of a tale of the ocean-side
community of Up Beach, a once popular ocean resort. Morrison introduces
an enclave of people who react to one man--Bill Cosey--and to each other
as they tell of his affect on generations of characters living in the
seaside community. One clear truth here, told time and again, is how
folks love and hate each other and the myriad ways it's manifested;
these versions of humanity are seen in almost every line. Monsters and
ghosts creep into young girls' dreams and around corners and then return
to staid ladies' lives as they age and remember friendships and cold
battles. Men and women--Heed, Romen, Junior, Christine, Celestial, and
the rest of Morrison's cast--cry and sing out their weaknesses and
strengths in rotating perspectives. Sandler, a Cosey employee, is a
brilliant agent of Morrison's descriptions of human behavior, "Then, in
a sudden shift of subject that children and heavy drinkers enjoy, 'My
son, Billy was about your age. When he died, I mean.'" And Romen is
allowed to play hero by saving a young girl from a brutal gang rape,
while at the same time, he battles disgust like no superhuman would be
caught dead feeling.
Though slim in pages, Morrison constructs Love with a precision and
elegance that shows her characters' flaws and fears with brutal
accuracy. Love may be less complex than others in the grand Morrison
oeuvre, but not because Morrison performs literary hand-holding. Readers
will experience in this smooth, sharp-eyed gem another instance of the
Toni Morrison craftsmanship: she enters your mind, hangs a tale or two
there, and leaves just as quietly as she came. --E. Brooke Gilbert
This book is currently out of print
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