Mirabell
29-Mar-2009, 00:26
Toni Morrison is the last American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and Americans have been whining about not getting another one ever since. Increasingly I have heard people complain that now that Updike has died and that Roth isn?t exactly young anymore, maybe Morrison should not have gotten that prize, if awarding it meant that neither Updike nor Roth would get one. Add to this the fact that her most famous and well-loved novel, Beloved, was published all the way back in 1987 and you understand why almost every single review of her latest novel, A Mercy, breathed an almost audible sigh of relief. Finally! Finally a return to form. And the topic was slavery again! Yes, I raised my eyebrows, too. But whatever the reasons for the exuberant praise that?s been showered on this novel, it?s well deserved. A Mercy is a very good novel. It?s smart, moving and, despite its short length, has a story is of epic proportions. With a writer of Morrison?s quality, this should not come as a great surprise, but it bears saying: the writing is so good, so clear, so sure that you read each page as you would a poem.my full review here Frontiers: Toni Morrison?s ?A Mercy? shigekuni. (http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/frontiers-toni-morrisons-%E2%80%9Ca-mercy%E2%80%9D/)
to get to the TOurnament of Books where she's up against 2666 in the Zombie Round, click here
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to get to the TOurnament of Books where she's up against 2666 in the Zombie Round, click here
http://themorningnews.org/tob/