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| Title | : | Home |
| Author | : | Toni Morrison |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 147 pages |
| Published | : | May 8th 2012 by Knopf (first published April 3rd 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. War. Literary Fiction. Literature. Novels |
Toni Morrison
Hardcover | Pages: 147 pages Rating: 3.76 | 17629 Users | 2358 Reviews
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America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again.
A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and his home.
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| Original Title: | Home |
| ISBN: | 0307594165 (ISBN13: 9780307594167) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Georgia(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013) |
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Ratings: 3.76 From 17629 Users | 2358 ReviewsDiscuss Based On Books Home
Nobel Prize winner, Toni Morrison, has a tremendous gift for writing novels that possess an 'in your face' quality. She takes the African American experience throughout United States history and forces you to really SEE and FEEL that experience .... no matter the discomfort it causes or the sense of horror and revulsion you feel. In her novel, Home, she writes a story about angry and dejected Korean War veteran , Frank Money and his younger sister, Cee. This story, Frank and Cee's story, doesn'tToni Morrisons new novel, Home, begins with two children witnessing a man being buried presumably alive. Its a strong opening. We could not see the faces of the men doing the burying, only their trousers; but we saw the edge of a spade drive the jerking foot down to join the rest of itself. But its also a testament to this unsubtle books endless litany of atrocities that by the end, Id almost totally forgotten about the man being buried alive. Think about that for a moment: the book is a mere
Catching up here on reads from a few months back. I cant let my 8th rewarding read of her work pass without saying something. Why keep coming back to her well? Yes, all her work reflects on issues of racism, on its many varieties and its pervasiveness, destructiveness, and insidiousness. But her prose, storytelling, and contribution to understanding human nature in its broad aspects makes her a consistently reliable source for great reading.Here we get the story of Frank, a black Korean War
A new novel by Toni Morrison is always cause for celebration in my world. In her tenth novel, she follows the life of Frank Money who escaped from his small Georgia town by joining the army, as so many disenfranchised young men have done. He fought in the Korean War and returned to America traumatized and troubled, only to find the same old racism under which he had always lived. Adrift, half crazy, he gets a message that his only sibling is at death's door. So he leaves the only person who has
At this point I've read all of TM's novels, save one -- Paradise -- and that was a novel I at least started and wanted to get through but life got in the way. (Maybe, also, I'd gotten far enough to know it wasn't going to be my scene). As well, I've seen her read three times -- once from A Mercy a year before it was published and again shortly after it was released, with the memories of that earlier reading still ringing fresh in my ears. The final time I heard her read it was from this novel,
This is a book worth a deeper dig so I've reread it on my Kindle for its highlighting ability. I highly recommend Home to readers and classrooms. Below is a small bit of why I chose it to book review at the Paris Public Library (this Thursday at 6:30, hope you can join me), beginning with the opening quote:Whose house is this?Whose night keeps out the lightIn here? Say, who owns this house?Its not mine. I dreamed another, sweeter, brighterWith a view of lakes crossed in painted boats;Of fields
When I need a dose of lyrical prose to just wash over me, I know I can turn to Toni Morrison. Morrison always delivers something beautifully rendered, even if heart-rending, such as a Korean War vet whose having a damn hard time finding his way home. Home jumps about from place to place, person to person. Home is, as they say, where the heart is, and Home is full of heart, albeit an often sad heart.Do not come to this book expecting a linear story following a single character with a sole
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