God Help the Child (English, Paperback, Morrison Toni)
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God Help the Child (English, Paperback, Morrison Toni)
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- Language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Genre: Fiction
- ISBN: 9780099555926, 0099555921
- Edition: 2016
- Pages: 192
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Toni Morrison's fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother. Booker cannot fathom Bride's depths, with his own love-lorn past bending him out of shape. Can they find a way through the damage wrought on their blameless childhood souls, to light and happiness, free from pain? BY THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED 'Haunting. . . Moving. . . Fearless. . . . God Help the Child yet again proves that Toni Morrison is an icon' Bustle Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
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Brilliant author, average story
At the heart of the story is the issue of self-love based on self-appearance. Because Bride is black, significantly darker than her mother who can pass of as white, she faces a lot of discrimination as a child. The most hurtful is the discrimination by her mother, who stays aloof and unloving most of the time. The most damning indictment is the discrimination based on skin color by colored people themselves. This is familiar ground for Morrison who talks about this exact issue in her first bo...
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Beware of abusing children!!!
This novel written by Toni Morrison is enigmatic.The issue of child abuse and color discrimination is handled by Morrison with peerless literary dexterity.Though, set in a post-racial and post-modern American scenario, yet the novel resonates with themes that are of utter importance for readers across globe.
A must read for all those who are sensitive towards the juvenile issues of contemporary society.
READ MOREA must read for all those who are sensitive towards the juvenile issues of contemporary society.
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A sad, bitter disappointment
It has a beautiful cover of a black woman in a pristine white dress and I was all set to enjoy my first ever Toni Morrison book. Something terrible happened instead. A few pages in, I was already feeling uncomfortable in the knowledge that I did not like the book at all. At times like this, I often start wondering about my lack of a classical English Literature college level education and whether I would appreciate such works better if I had been taught to look for symbolism and sentence cons...
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