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The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom

The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom

Morrison, Toni
Smith, Zadie

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ISBN10: 0525659293
ISBN13: 9780525659297
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Dec 3 2019
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 6.60
Language: English
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.

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