false 11359 31 Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, <b>Tar Baby</b><i> </i>is Toni Morrison&#8217;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. 2174297 1981 Tar Baby total:2704|5:577|4:1018|3:871|2:193|1:45| 2704 10001 3476 108 2 16 false 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...]]> 5 3 false 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...]]> 4 1 false 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...]]> 5 1 false 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...]]> 5 1 false 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...]]> 0 1 false 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...]]> 3 1 false 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 5 0 false 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...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 27 22:54:51 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 22:56:40 -0800 2009 1 1 false false Tue Feb 26 07:13:50 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 28 09:03:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false 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...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Sep 02 19:00:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 19:16:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false 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
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"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."

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This book is set on the carribean island of Dominique, and explores mainly the relationships between the characters, covering race,gender and class issues.
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