I’ve never encountered a novel so layered, so overpowering, so filled with trauma. Morrison presents the historical facts of slavery to the reader in quiet language and multiple interpretations of Sethe’s choice, inviting the reader to participate in the moral deliberations of the characters. She purposefully keeps the true facts ambiguous and unfamiliar, intentionally obscures deeds too devastating to describe. In doing so, the reader senses those acts as they were perceived by the slaves themselves. Morrison whispers the evils of slavery to us and our response is speechless. It is heartbreak. It is truth.
'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heart-breaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all' Margaret Atwood, New York Times
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It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her…
I experienced a multitude of emotions in this captivating, sweeping novel that follows a cast of flawed, passionate, confused, and lonely characters over their entire lives, through births, deaths, marriages, secrets, tragedies and even some resolution. Creating a real portrait of an American past, the author inserted wisdom through his well developed characters. As I turned each absorbing page, I couldn’t help feeling like I was reading an old classic. Epic yet intimate, Buckeye tells about war and adultery, the fallibility of human attraction, and the vast journey we must travel to arrive at truth.
One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.
'Poignant, powerful' Independent 'Omniscient, sweeping, almost defiantly sentimental' New York Times 'It's not just a great Midwestern novel, it's a great novel, period' Financial Times
'I've been yearning for a novel that connects the American generations who dealt with our two Wars - one of Omaha Beach, the other of the Ia Drang Valley. Buckeye is that book, and it soars' TOM HANKS 'Funny and tender ... Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers' ANN PATCHETT 'I love this…
Beginning with a surprise encounter: Daphne is strolling with her husband Jonathan at the Metropolitan Museum only to run into the stepfather Eddie Triplett she hasn’t seen for forty years but who she shared a deep affection. This is a story of love, loss, memory, family, and kindness. As with several Patchett tales, our view of the present is more deeply considered by shining a luminous light on the past. And we experience intense human connection and all that is good and right, even despite the childhood muddle that came long before.
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'Few writers are more adept than Patchett at delineating the collisions between present and past' Observer
'Whistler is top-shelf comfort food, the literary equivalent of pricey ice-cream' Guardian, Book of the Day __________
When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn't expect it to be Eddie - her former stepfather.
Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn't seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful…
During a singular moment in American history, a diverse group of classmates forges friendships and debates over issues of race, politics, and belonging against the backdrop of a world on fire. As the year progresses, and the antiwar movement gains momentum, unrest builds at Waverley High.
A tale of identity, activism, and finding your voice, this coming-of-age novel is set during one school year, from 1969 to 1970, at an urban high school in a midwestern city. Told through the eyes of precocious teenager Lena Rosen, World News from Waverley High chronicles the spirit and soundtrack of that volatile year for her and her fellow students as they navigate high school hallways and a country in crisis.
