Tar Baby
Read by
Desiree Coleman
Release:
07/19/2011
Runtime:
11h 27m
Unabridged
Quantity:
Deeply perceptive. . . . Return[s] risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel.
John Irving, The New York Times Book Review
Winner of Nobel Prize, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize, 1993
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
“Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The Washington Post
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.
“Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The Washington Post
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.
Release:
2011-07-19
Runtime:
11h 27m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307939876
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Praise