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by Toni Morrison

Knopf Canada | May 8, 2012 | Hardcover

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The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.
 
An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he''s hated all his life. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding himself--and his home.

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  • 5 months ago
    Disappointing
    How many themes does a novel need? I could have used a GPS to navigate the many paths that Toni Morrison takes us down in her latest book, Home. Is this an account of a road trip? Is this about a young man with post- traumatic stress following the Korean War? Is this about the plight of black Americans in the 1950s? Is it, as the title suggests, about the green, green grass of home? But then, why is the opening poem about self-awareness? Maybe it's about learning to be a man like the brutal horses who 'stood like men.' It's all of these things, in 145 pages. At Can.$25.95, maybe I'm getting my money's worth with so many ideas to chew through. Or maybe I'm asking myself, "Where's the editor of this tangle?" Read the rest of my review on my blog http://esthersbookreviews.blogspot.com
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The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.
 
An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he''s hated all his life. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding himself--and his home.

Format: Hardcover

Dimensions: 160 Pages, 5.51 × 8.27 × 0.39 in

Published: May 8, 2012

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Language: English

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:

ISBN - 10: 0307399729

ISBN - 13: 9780307399724

From the Critics

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"This haunting, slender novel is a kind of tiny Rosetta Stone to Toni Morrison's entire oeuvre.... Morrison has found a new, angular voice and straight-ahead storytelling style that showcase her knowledge of her characters, and the ways in which violence and passion and regret are braided through their lives, the ways in which love and duty can redeem a blighted past."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review
 
"Immaculate.... Beautiful, brutal...perfect prose."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
"Taut, lacerating…. One of our national literary treasures continues to marshal her considerable talents to draw a deeply moving narrative."
-Booklist (starred review)
 
"A deceptively rich and cumulatively powerful novel.... A novel that illuminates truths that its characters may not be capable of articulating."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

About the Author

TONI MORRISON is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey.
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