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Paradise
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 213
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- By Kennedi Hill on 11-07-19
- Paradise
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Looking through TM’s eyes.
Reviewed: 07-07-23
I’m not one you can call well read. I am an artist though. Ambiguity I perceive in this book and other TM writings is intended. I see with my minds eye everything TM illustrates and though I’m lost in the story it bothers me not nor dose it discourage me from continuing. Her work stirs me and inspires me as does the work of Joni Mitchell. I see a world she sees that I would not have otherwise. Thank you TM.
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