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Love : a Novel by Toni Morrison is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Love : a Novel about?
Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, colour and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town.“A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not only of love but of racial politics.” - Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favour. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison’s protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey’s memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to outright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny, erotic, and heartwrenching."This is coast country, humid and God fearing, where female recklessness runs too deep for short shorts or thongs or cameras. But then or now, decent underwear or none, wild women never could hide their innocence -- a kind of pitty-kitty hopefulness that their prince was on his way. Especially the tough ones with their box cutters and dirty language, or the glossy ones with two-seated cars and a pocketbook full of dope. Even the ones who wear scar
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400078479
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (6,510 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Miłość (2005)
- Love (2004)
- Love (LITTERATURE ETRANGERE) (1969)
- Liefde (2004)
- Love (2003)
- Love: A novel (Morrison, Toni) (2003)
- Love: A novel (Morrison, Toni) (2005)
- Amor (ARETE) (2004)
- Love : a Novel (2003)
- Love (LITTERATURE ETRANGERE) (2015)
- Love (2002)
- Love: A novel (Morrison, Toni) (2002)
- Love (LITTERATURE ETRANGERE) (2004)
- Liubovʹ (2018)
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