Tar baby
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A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
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.
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.
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9781400033447
9780307388155
9780307388155
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| Grouping Title | tar baby |
| Grouping Author | toni morrison |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2023-03-31 03:51:42AM |
| Last Indexed | 2023-03-31 04:16:45AM |
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"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."--Cover.
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9781400033447
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2004
2007
2007
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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African Americans -- Fiction
Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
Retirees -- Fiction
Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
Retirees -- Fiction
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Tar baby
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Tar Baby
Tar baby / Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]
Tar baby / Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]
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Tar baby
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African American Fiction
African Americans
Classic Literature
Fiction
Fugitives from justice
Literature
Retirees
African Americans
Classic Literature
Fiction
Fugitives from justice
Literature
Retirees
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