ParadiseA.A. Knopf, 1998 - 318 "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women." In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery. |
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... Soane Morgan , the cloth packet emanated ten- sion . Soane kept touching it as though to remind herself that it was there . The easy talk in the kitchen had disappeared . Suddenly formal , Soane said very little , answered Mavis ...
... Soane Morgan , the cloth packet emanated ten- sion . Soane kept touching it as though to remind herself that it was there . The easy talk in the kitchen had disappeared . Suddenly formal , Soane said very little , answered Mavis ...
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... Soane and Mavis drove away , turned into another road , heading east for what seemed like an hour . Pointing toward a fancy wooden sign , Soane said , “ Here we are . ” The sign read RUBY POP . 360 on top and LODGE 16 at the bottom ...
... Soane and Mavis drove away , turned into another road , heading east for what seemed like an hour . Pointing toward a fancy wooden sign , Soane said , “ Here we are . ” The sign read RUBY POP . 360 on top and LODGE 16 at the bottom ...
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... Soane had not gone to the Con- vent for the help sin always needed . Shortly afterwards standing at the clothesline , struggling with the wind to pin sheets , Soane had looked up to see a lady in the yard smiling . She wore a brown wool ...
... Soane had not gone to the Con- vent for the help sin always needed . Shortly afterwards standing at the clothesline , struggling with the wind to pin sheets , Soane had looked up to see a lady in the yard smiling . She wore a brown wool ...
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