Toni Morrison
Hardcover | Pages: 147 pages Rating: 3.76 | 17629 Users | 2358 Reviews
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| Title | : | Home |
| Author | : | Toni Morrison |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 147 pages |
| Published | : | May 8th 2012 by Knopf (first published April 3rd 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. War. Literary Fiction. Literature. Novels |
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America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war. Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and his home.Mention Books As Home
| Original Title: | Home |
| ISBN: | 0307594165 (ISBN13: 9780307594167) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Georgia(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013) |
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Ratings: 3.76 From 17629 Users | 2358 ReviewsColumn Of Books Home
The divine Toni Morrison has been giving us shorter novels to enjoy lately. As with A Mercy, Home comes in at an unintimidating page count. But in this novel, in addition to brevity (it can easily be read over the course of a day if you have some spare time) we are also gifted with greater accessibility. Many non-book readers, and non literary fiction readers, steer clear of Toni Morrison because her exquisite use of language does not make for light reading. Her poetic verse can be challengingWhen I need a dose of lyrical prose to just wash over me, I know I can turn to Toni Morrison. Morrison always delivers something beautifully rendered, even if heart-rending, such as a Korean War vet whose having a damn hard time finding his way home. Home jumps about from place to place, person to person. Home is, as they say, where the heart is, and Home is full of heart, albeit an often sad heart.Do not come to this book expecting a linear story following a single character with a sole
Frank is a black Korean War veteran, a year out, suffering PTSD, imprisoned in a mental hospital for actions he cannot remember. He has been engaging in a range of self-destructive behaviors that have led him to this bedraggled state. He had received a letter concerning his sister, Come fast. She be dead if you tarry, and must find his way home. There are barriers to be overcome, people who will help, and memories to be relived. One mystery that propels the tale is what happened to cause Franks
Isn't it strange that even as hungry as we readers are for the written word, some authors still manage to elude us for years? Believe it or not, this is my first experience reading the beautiful writing of Toni Morrison. A novella, more than a novel, "Home" explores a veteran of the Korean War, Frank, and his sister, Cee. Frank is experiencing what we would refer to as PTSD , flashes of his time on the battlefield and the death of his comrades, including two of his childhood best friends haunts
Catching up here on reads from a few months back. I cant let my 8th rewarding read of her work pass without saying something. Why keep coming back to her well? Yes, all her work reflects on issues of racism, on its many varieties and its pervasiveness, destructiveness, and insidiousness. But her prose, storytelling, and contribution to understanding human nature in its broad aspects makes her a consistently reliable source for great reading.Here we get the story of Frank, a black Korean War
Toni Morrisons new novel, Home, begins with two children witnessing a man being buried presumably alive. Its a strong opening. We could not see the faces of the men doing the burying, only their trousers; but we saw the edge of a spade drive the jerking foot down to join the rest of itself. But its also a testament to this unsubtle books endless litany of atrocities that by the end, Id almost totally forgotten about the man being buried alive. Think about that for a moment: the book is a mere
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