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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... hand . His shirt glistening white between broad suspenders . With- out help of stick and with nary a groan , Big Papa stood up . Together they watched the man walking away from the palest part of the sky . Once , he lingered to turn ...
... hand . His shirt glistening white between broad suspenders . With- out help of stick and with nary a groan , Big Papa stood up . Together they watched the man walking away from the palest part of the sky . Once , he lingered to turn ...
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... hand in hand with their awe : the magical way he ( and his twin ) accumulated money . His prophetic wisdom . His total memory . The most powerful of which was one of his earliest . Forty - two years ago he had fought for hand room in ...
... hand in hand with their awe : the magical way he ( and his twin ) accumulated money . His prophetic wisdom . His total memory . The most powerful of which was one of his earliest . Forty - two years ago he had fought for hand room in ...
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... hand but west on the Convent that loomed in their sight line . She should have known then . Had she been paying ... hands and what they carried . Without a murmur , the couples left , but the men didn't . Leaning against the Oven's walls ...
... hand but west on the Convent that loomed in their sight line . She should have known then . Had she been paying ... hands and what they carried . Without a murmur , the couples left , but the men didn't . Leaning against the Oven's walls ...
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Aaron Poole Anna arms Arnette asked baby Big Daddy Big Papa Billie Delia Blackhorse boys breath brother Cadillac called clothes coffee colored Connie Connie's Consolata Convent Daddy dark daugh Deek Demby door Dovey drove DuPres eyes face father fingers Fleetwood Gigi girl gone hair hand Haven head heard Jeff kitchen knew laughed light listen living Lone looked m'am marriage Mary Magna Mavis Menus Morgan mother mouth needed never night okay Oven Pallas Pulliam pumpkin bread Reverend Misner Richard Misner road Ruby Sargeant Seneca Sha sha shoes Sister skin sleep smiled Soane station wagon Steward stop street sure Sweetie talk tell thing thought told TONI MORRISON took town truck turned twins wait walked watched window woman women young Zechariah