The Measure of Our Lives The Measure of Our Lives

The Measure of Our Lives

A Gathering of Wisdom

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Publisher Description

At once the ideal introduction to the legendary Nobel Prize winner and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. • With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Zadie Smith.

"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller." —Oprah Winfrey


This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction—from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard—to tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision.

Its compelling sequence of flashes of revelation—stunning for their linguistic originality, keenness of psychological observation, and philosophical profundity—addresses issues of abiding interest in Morrison's work: the reach of language for the ineffable; transcendence through imagination; the self and its discontents; the vicissitudes of love; the whirligig of memory; the singular power of women; the original American sin of slavery; the bankruptcy of racial oppression; the complex humanity and art of black people. The Measure of Our Lives brims with elegance of style and mind and moral authority.

GENRE
Biography
RELEASED
2019
3 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SIZE
5.5
MB

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