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Tar Baby (1981)

by Toni Morrison

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Classic Literature. Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, 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.
"Morrison�s genius lies in her uncanny ability to immerse you totally in the world she creates.� �Newsweek.… (more)

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813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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PS3563.O8749Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Individual authors › 1961-

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