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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... took the cake for pure burning power . The relish lasted years with proper attention , and though many customers tried planting the seeds , the pepper grew nowhere outside the Convent's garden . Strange neighbors , most folks said , but ...
... took the cake for pure burning power . The relish lasted years with proper attention , and though many customers tried planting the seeds , the pepper grew nowhere outside the Convent's garden . Strange neighbors , most folks said , but ...
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... took off ( leaving a reassuringly misleading note ) . At the Tulsa airport , it took two and a half hours to hire a car and driver to take her all the way to the Convent . Just a visit , she said . Just to find out how everybody was ...
... took off ( leaving a reassuringly misleading note ) . At the Tulsa airport , it took two and a half hours to hire a car and driver to take her all the way to the Convent . Just a visit , she said . Just to find out how everybody was ...
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... took the form of a pistol , Tea , quite reasonably , accommodated the whites , even though he was a grown man , older than they were . Coffee took a bullet in his foot instead . From that moment they weren't brothers anymore . Coffee ...
... took the form of a pistol , Tea , quite reasonably , accommodated the whites , even though he was a grown man , older than they were . Coffee took a bullet in his foot instead . From that moment they weren't brothers anymore . Coffee ...
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