|
|
|
Item Details
Title:
|
PARADISE
|
By: |
Toni Morrison |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
|
£9.99 |
Our price: |
£7.29 |
Discount: |
|
You save:
|
£2.70 |
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
0099768216 |
ISBN 13: |
9780099768210 |
Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-2 days.
Delivery
rates
|
Stock: |
Currently 9 available |
Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
5 March, 1999 |
Pages: |
336 |
Description: |
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with clarity. |
Synopsis: |
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the counter culture and the politics of the late 1970s, deftly manipulating past, present and future, this novel of mysterious motives reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. The drama of its people - from the four young women and their elderly protector, to conservative businessmen, rednecks, a Civil Rights minister and veterans of three wars - richly evokes clashes that have bedevilled American society: between race and racelessness; patriarchy and matriarchy; religion and magic; freedom and belonging; promiscuity and fidelity. Magnificent in its scope, PARADISE is a revelation in the intensity of its potrayal of human complexity and in the sheer force of its narrative. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000
Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000
Short-listed for Orange Prize 1999
Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 1999 |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
Book Level : 5.8
Interest Level : Upper Yrs
Points : 17
Quiz number : 227367
Learn More
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|