Juvenile Nonfiction

52 Books. | July 2009
Morrison, Toni
NY: Knopf, 2008
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Morrison again focuses her unwavering eye and razor-sharp intelligence — and tight, poetic pen — on the costs and causes of slavery, with somewhat less impact than in earlier novels. A character study, with a number of really, really well defined characters, living in the colonies in the infancy of the slave trade. Not so much plot, which makes the whole thing seem smaller than, say, Song of Solomon or Beloved. Works, too, as an essay about the many lives, treatments, views of and prospects for women in the 1600s (none of them all that good). I tore through it. Recommended.

Previous Book: 44. Responsibility for devalued persons: ethical interactions between society, the family and the retarded. Next Book: 46. Future missionaries of America.

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