“Writing was … the most extraordinary way of thinking and feeling. It became the one thing I was doing that I had absolutely no intention of living without.” Toni Morrison
Decided to clean, clear, coordinate, control my bookcase contents. Found some great stuff that I had forgotten. I discovered that I own a lot of Toni Morrison books – “The Bluest Eye”, “Sula”, “Love”, “Paradise”, “Songs of Solomon” and of course the Pulitzer prize winner “Beloved”. Ms. Morrison has such a way with words. She can set a tone, paint a picture, capture identifiable feeling/emotion and describe events so clearly and with such poetry that it makes you laugh or, it makes you cry. There are some passages in “Beloved” that are so painful that your throat clutches and closes. The book must be set down until you can breathe again.“Beloved” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and Ms Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Toni Morrison is another writer doing what she has to do and as a result, has created a significant and unique body of work about the African-American experience (actually the “American” experience) – such a legacy!
Novels
• The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Sula (1973)
• Song of Solomon (1977 )
• Tar Baby (1981)
• Beloved (1987)
• Jazz (1992)
• Paradise (1999)
• Love (2003)