Love
  • Published: 1 September 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099455493
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $30.00

Love

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Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.


A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious vision from a master storyteller on the nature of love – its appetite, its sublime possession, and its consuming dread – is rich in characters and dramatic events, and in its profound sensitivity to just how alive the past can be. Sensual, elegiac and unforgettable, Love ultimately comes full circle to that indelible, overwhelming first love that marks us forever.

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

‘Love is her best work…a slender but mesmerising tale’ Evening Standard
  • Published: 1 September 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099455493
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $30.00
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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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Praise for Love

This is a novel that demands to be read at least twice, for it is so rich and satisfying that it sweeps you into a subtle world that you need time to take in... Quite breathtaking

Daily Mail

Love is a brilliant book... Into a short narrative she packs mystery, suspense and a multi-stranded tale told with extraordinary deftness

Financial Times

When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose

Spectator

An affecting and absorbing novel

Sunday Times

Love is her best work yet, a slender but mesmerising tale

Evening Standard

Morrison's imagery is as striking and her narrative technique as powerful as ever

Sunday Telegraph

This novel is a searing, haunting, yet beautiful masterpiece. The story resonates in the mind long after the last page is turned. Buy it. Read it

Scotland on Sunday

Love's power lies in the luminosity and energy of its poetic images

Observer

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Guardian