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  • Published: 3 March 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099437666
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.99

Toni Morrison

The Essential Guide



Focusing on Morrison's celebrated novels Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, this indispensible guide includes an exclusive author interview.

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Toni Morrison. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Toni Morrison, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Morrison's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for the novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a biography, bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

Whether a teacher, student or general reader, Vintage Living Texts gives you the chance to explore new resources and enjoy new pleasures.

  • Published: 3 March 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099437666
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.99

About the authors

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster: her previous books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion and Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts.

Jonathan Noakes

The Series Editors of Vintage Living Texts have, between them, more than thirty years teaching experience at senior school and undergraduate level. Their association with Vintage - and with the Vintage authors - guarantees a series that is lively and informative and fun.