A Mercy
by:
Toni Morrison (author)
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's first novel in five years follows characters white and black, enslaved and free, as they attempt to find stability and love in the 17th-century American Colonies. At the center of the fiction is Florens, a youthful black woman who becomes chattel in a financial...
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Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's first novel in five years follows characters white and black, enslaved and free, as they attempt to find stability and love in the 17th-century American Colonies. At the center of the fiction is Florens, a youthful black woman who becomes chattel in a financial transaction gone wrong. As she attempts to cope with her predicament, she comes into contact with others also struggling to find a niche in the uncertainties of the New World. As in previous works, Morrison establishes the uniqueness of her characters by Rashomon-like devices of multiple perspectives on the same events.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780739326305 (0739326309)
Publish date: November 11th 2008
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
African American,
Contemporary
A very sad and utterly depressing read. I didn't like the structure and complicated narration. It somehow detracted from the force of the story sometimes.
Whew, the last few pages gave this book the boost it needed, heart-breaking.
It was a small novel. It was ok, and I think I see what she was idling, bringing every type of person into the book. Where they Roy whn
I'm torn on how to review this. It was well-written and the various points of view made the story quite rich, but I didn't find myself quite as engaged as I would have liked. Perhaps it's because the book is so short - I didn't quite have time to immerse myself in the different voices.Or maybe it ...
I really wasn't sure what to make of this. it seemed to pose more questions than answer. Not to say that it was a bad book, but that i'm just not quite sure I understood what the author was trying to say.
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