false 11359 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg 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.]]> 11359 32 2174297 1981 Tar Baby total:2777|5:591|4:1043|3:898|2:198|1:47| 2777 10264 3582 113 3534 3.80 89104 6216 43923392 193310 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2648 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.]]> 1981 2 16 false Thu Jan 22 08:15:49 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:27:34 -0800 2009

crazy dreadlocked black man is found hiding in the closet of a wealthy white coupleâ...more...]]> 4376094 269959 1538935 0452264790 9780452264793 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184908344m/1538935.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184908344s/1538935.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1538935.Tar_Baby 3.41 34 Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people.

The place is a Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years--the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife--who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden bursts of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. And there is a visitor among them--a beautiful young black woman, Jadine, who is not only the servant's dazzling niece, but the protegée and friend of the Streets themselves; Jadine, who has been educated at the Sorbonne at Valerian's expense and is home now for a respite from her Paris world of fashion, film and art.

Through a season of untroubled ease, the lives of these five move with a ritualized grace until, one night, a ragged, starving black American street man breaks into the house. And, in a single moment, with Valerian's perverse decision not to call for help but instead to invite the man to sit with them and eat, everything changes. Valerian moves toward a larger abdication. Margaret's delicate and enduring deception is shattered. The butler and his wife are forced into acknowledging their illusions. And Jadine, who at first is repelled by the intruder, finds herself moving inexorably toward him--he calls himself Son;  he is a kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood; uneducated, violent, contemptuous of her privilege.

As Jadine and Son come together in the loving collision they have both welcomed and feared, the novel moves outward--to the Florida backwater town Son was raised in, fled from, yet cherishes; to her sleek New York; then back to the island people and their protective and entangling legends. As the lovers strive to hold and understand each other, as they experience the awful weight of  the separate worlds that have formed them--she perceiving his vision of reality and of love as inimical to her freedom, he perceiving her as the classic lure, the tar baby set out to entrap him--all the mysterious elements, all the highly charged threads of the story converge. Everything that is at risk is made clear: how the conflicts and dramas wrought by social and cultural circumstances must ultimately be played out in the realm of the heart.

Once again, Toni Morrison has given us a novel of daring, fascination, and power.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 1981 5 3 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Aug 10 16:05:03 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 20 09:19:33 -0800 2008 1 toni morrison's most famous work, but i would argue that "tar baby" is better. there are so many relationships in this book and so many layers to each of those relationships. love, sex, race, gender, class, ethnicity, even geography...there isn'...more...]]> 3652960 223993 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 4 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 10:22:25 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 10:22:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 13690999 135991 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 5 1 false Sat Jan 26 23:09:42 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 23:15:05 -0800 2008
I also really enjoyed the narrative structure. It will keep shifting focus between the different characters, but it uses dialogue as a bridge. So, for instance, a...more...]]> 12478403 727229 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 08:52:03 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 09:04:33 -0800 2008 Toni Morrison is a stunning writer and this book is an absolutely breathtaking example of her literary opulence. An amazing, complex piece of literature, it considers themes of race, gender, love and freedom in ways that don’t crash and burn in attempt to resolve them but mandate the reader to qu...more...]]> 22078293 1055877 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 0 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon May 12 11:14:04 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 11:14:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 15109498 893934 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 3 1 false Sat May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 10 20:16:48 -0800 2008 Sat May 03 20:49:49 -0700 2008 49592563 1037274 168660 0451122240 9780451122247 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1198016364m/168660.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1198016364s/168660.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168660.Tar_Baby 3.65 26 Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people.

The place is a Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years--the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife--who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden bursts of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. And there is a visitor among them--a beautiful young black woman, Jadine, who is not only the servant's dazzling niece, but the protegée and friend of the Streets themselves; Jadine, who has been educated at the Sorbonne at Valerian's expense and is home now for a respite from her Paris world of fashion, film and art.

Through a season of untroubled ease, the lives of these five move with a ritualized grace until, one night, a ragged, starving black American street man breaks into the house. And, in a single moment, with Valerian's perverse decision not to call for help but instead to invite the man to sit with them and eat, everything changes. Valerian moves toward a larger abdication. Margaret's delicate and enduring deception is shattered. The butler and his wife are forced into acknowledging their illusions. And Jadine, who at first is repelled by the intruder, finds herself moving inexorably toward him--he calls himself Son;  he is a kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood; uneducated, violent, contemptuous of her privilege.

As Jadine and Son come together in the loving collision they have both welcomed and feared, the novel moves outward--to the Florida backwater town Son was raised in, fled from, yet cherishes; to her sleek New York; then back to the island people and their protective and entangling legends. As the lovers strive to hold and understand each other, as they experience the awful weight of  the separate worlds that have formed them--she perceiving his vision of reality and of love as inimical to her freedom, he perceiving her as the classic lure, the tar baby set out to entrap him--all the mysterious elements, all the highly charged threads of the story converge. Everything that is at risk is made clear: how the conflicts and dramas wrought by social and cultural circumstances must ultimately be played out in the realm of the heart.

Once again, Toni Morrison has given us a novel of daring, fascination, and power.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 1981 5 0 true Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 15:04:36 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 11:04:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 44606732 3241 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 5 1 false Tue Jan 27 22:54:51 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 22:56:40 -0800 2009 16402742 889440 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 1 1 false Tue Feb 26 07:13:50 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 28 09:03:10 -0700 2008 73363735 291638 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 0 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 03 20:04:01 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 20:06:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 69874447 1759929 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 1 0 false Wed Sep 02 19:00:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 19:16:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 33319720 797975 1538935 0452264790 9780452264793 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184908344m/1538935.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184908344s/1538935.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1538935.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people.

The place is a Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years--the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife--who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden bursts of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. And there is a visitor among them--a beautiful young black woman, Jadine, who is not only the servant's dazzling niece, but the protegée and friend of the Streets themselves; Jadine, who has been educated at the Sorbonne at Valerian's expense and is home now for a respite from her Paris world of fashion, film and art.

Through a season of untroubled ease, the lives of these five move with a ritualized grace until, one night, a ragged, starving black American street man breaks into the house. And, in a single moment, with Valerian's perverse decision not to call for help but instead to invite the man to sit with them and eat, everything changes. Valerian moves toward a larger abdication. Margaret's delicate and enduring deception is shattered. The butler and his wife are forced into acknowledging their illusions. And Jadine, who at first is repelled by the intruder, finds herself moving inexorably toward him--he calls himself Son;  he is a kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood; uneducated, violent, contemptuous of her privilege.

As Jadine and Son come together in the loving collision they have both welcomed and feared, the novel moves outward--to the Florida backwater town Son was raised in, fled from, yet cherishes; to her sleek New York; then back to the island people and their protective and entangling legends. As the lovers strive to hold and understand each other, as they experience the awful weight of  the separate worlds that have formed them--she perceiving his vision of reality and of love as inimical to her freedom, he perceiving her as the classic lure, the tar baby set out to entrap him--all the mysterious elements, all the highly charged threads of the story converge. Everything that is at risk is made clear: how the conflicts and dramas wrought by social and cultural circumstances must ultimately be played out in the realm of the heart.

Once again, Toni Morrison has given us a novel of daring, fascination, and power.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 1981 3 0 false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Fri Sep 19 20:33:33 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 20:40:49 -0700 2008
p. 9
"The men had already folded the earth where there had been no fold...more...]]> 28163626 184218 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 4 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 09:52:59 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 19:28:05 -0700 2008
"It's because I do love it that I'm complaining. I'd like to know if it's permanent. Living like this you can't figure nothing."

"The moment he saw her somethin...more...]]> 23878697 1069261 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 3 1 true Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 13:32:20 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 06:38:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 33414641 954838 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 4 0 false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 04:35:57 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 18:15:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4254015 78611 774174 0394423291 9780394423296 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178233265m/774174.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178233265s/774174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774174.Tar_Baby 3.90 20 Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people.

The place is a Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years--the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife--who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden bursts of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. And there is a visitor among them--a beautiful young black woman, Jadine, who is not only the servant's dazzling niece, but the protegée and friend of the Streets themselves; Jadine, who has been educated at the Sorbonne at Valerian's expense and is home now for a respite from her Paris world of fashion, film and art.

Through a season of untroubled ease, the lives of these five move with a ritualized grace until, one night, a ragged, starving black American street man breaks into the house. And, in a single moment, with Valerian's perverse decision not to call for help but instead to invite the man to sit with them and eat, everything changes. Valerian moves toward a larger abdication. Margaret's delicate and enduring deception is shattered. The butler and his wife are forced into acknowledging their illusions. And Jadine, who at first is repelled by the intruder, finds herself moving inexorably toward him--he calls himself Son;  he is a kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood; uneducated, violent, contemptuous of her privilege.

As Jadine and Son come together in the loving collision they have both welcomed and feared, the novel moves outward--to the Florida backwater town Son was raised in, fled from, yet cherishes; to her sleek New York; then back to the island people and their protective and entangling legends. As the lovers strive to hold and understand each other, as they experience the awful weight of  the separate worlds that have formed them--she perceiving his vision of reality and of love as inimical to her freedom, he perceiving her as the classic lure, the tar baby set out to entrap him--all the mysterious elements, all the highly charged threads of the story converge. Everything that is at risk is made clear: how the conflicts and dramas wrought by social and cultural circumstances must ultimately be played out in the realm of the heart.

Once again, Toni Morrison has given us a novel of daring, fascination, and power.]]> 1981 3 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 07:41:59 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 04:17:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 71670961 161848 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 5 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 10:09:18 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 10:20:52 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 78530659 227190 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 08:42:07 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 08:45:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40007206 1744422 11359 1400033446 9781400033447 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494m/11359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469494s/11359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11359.Tar_Baby 3.70 2777 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.]]> 1981 4 0 false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 07:15:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 12:34:52 -0800 2008 Toni Morrison.
This book is set on the carribean island of Dominique, and explores mainly the relationships between the characters, covering race,gender and class issues.
Her pro...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11359