- Literature, Race identity, Married people, Fiction
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins.
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- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 305
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New American Library, Knopf
- Editions
- 47
- Language
- English, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780701162061
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“HE BELIEVED he was safe.”
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters. Among her best known novels are *The Bluest Eye*, *Song of Solomon*, and *Beloved*. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison
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