Résumé
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 FictionRevue de presseIt is so beautifully written, full of perfect sentences…with such profound understanding of sympathy for her damaged characters… This is a wise, humane, enriching novel. If it should prove to be Toni Morrison’s last, it is quite a finale -- Allan Massie ―ScotsmanSlim but powerful… A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant -- Michiko Kakutani ―New York TimesMorrison ... proves withGod Help the Child that her writing is still as fresh, adventurous and vigorous as ever. ... Morrison’s characteristically deft temporal shifts and precisely honed language deliver literary riches galore. And which this novel is very readable, the pleasure is in working for its deeper rewards. -- Bernadine Evaristo ―ObserverAnd the writing. Oh wow, the writing. Not for nothing has Morrison been garlanded with a Novel Prize, Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award. There’s always a sense of grand occasion when Morrison releases a book, and with good reason: the journey is always vivid, dazzling and rich, each paragraph a mealy morsel in its own right. A highly personal and affecting tale that manages to be deftly political, God Help the Child is emotionally rousing and gut-wrenching -- Tanya Sweeney ―Irish IndependentA piece of mastery ... Sensitive to legacies of abuse, to pressures of racism, image, taboo and economics, and to the harmful fictions and common social madnesses of the modern Western world, it found an impossible-seeming, myth-like form to reveal the interconnections between these, never losing its streetwise footing in the process. -- Ali Smith ―New Statesman, Books of the Year
Quatrième de couverture
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?Biographie de l'auteurToni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, includingThe Bluest Eye,Sula,Beloved,Paradise andLove. She received the National Book Critics Circl
À propos de l'auteur
Morrison, Toni
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, includingThe Bluest Eye,Sula,Beloved,Paradise andLove. She received the National Book Critics Circl
Fiche technique
- Titre : God Help the Child
- Auteur : Morrison, Toni
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 192
- Genre : Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)
- Date de publication : 21-04-2016
- Édition : Vintage
- Poids : 0.141 kg
- Dimensions : 12.8999742 x 1.1999976 x 19.7999604 cm
- ISBN-10 : 0099555921
- ISBN-13 : 9780099555926
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