5/24/2023 0 Comments Home by toni morrison![]() ![]() On the other hand, Morrison’s writing is luminous, and anywhere you open it, the book has individual sentences that sing. It reads partly like an allegory, partly like an elegy for a rural southern way of life, partly like a meditation on redemption, but its individual pieces do not fully cohere and the characters seem like shadows moving across a stage just as we feel we are about to get to know them, they disappear. Home is a short book that does not have the full character and plot development of most of Morrison’s work. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. Morrison is on stage at the Center in this 2016 photograph. The occasion is a good time to learn about Morrison and the materials the Schomburg Center has about her in their collections. ![]() ![]() In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The United States Postal Service released a Forever stamp in March in tribute to Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is on a mission, he believes, to save his little sister from unknown peril. Goheen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University. In this novel, Frank Money, a Korean War veteran, travels from Seattle to the small town in Georgia where he was raised, a place that he has long loathed and associated only with violence, rejection and personal misery. Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison’s 10th novel, Home, explicitly picks up on a theme that has been crucial to both her fiction and her nonfiction over several decades: the idea of making a home within a divided nation. ![]()
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