Tar Baby
by Toni Morrison
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0452264790
- ISBN 13
- 9780452264793
- Seller
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Brossard, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
Synopsis
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Shop-books.ca (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202001465
- Title
- Tar Baby
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 14th printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452264790
- ISBN 13
- 9780452264793
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- used books; discount books; children's books; signed books; shop books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
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