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Original Title:	Paradise
ISBN:	0452280397 (ISBN13: 9780452280397)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1999), Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (1999), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000)

Paradise Paperback | Pages: 318 pages

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"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.

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Title	:	Paradise
Author	:	Toni Morrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Plume Printing (Oprah's Book Club)
Pages	:	Pages: 318 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1999 by Plume (Penguin Books Ltd) (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. African American. Literature

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Paradise," by the great Toni Morrison was at times quite frustrating to read... The sudden changing, narrative at times made it difficult to follow... And yet at other times the writing is so sublime and hypnotic that it left me speechless. The last fifty pages are a clinic in what it takes to be a great writer.Steep in African-American history, mysticism, and religious beliefs, it is a novel of breathtaking scope and importance. The town of "Ruby" founded by nine black families escaping the

The beginning of the "Divine" chapter has undoubtedly changed my entire life.



I'll confess that, though I'm an adoring Morrison fan, I've avoided three novels (this one, Jazz, Tar Baby) because of the less-than-stellar things I've heard about them. (Not to mention I found Love tedious.) Well, I went in as a skeptic and I came out a believer.The first sentence, quoted again and again here on GR, really deserves another show: "They shot the white girl first." It's so perfect, so emblematic of Morrison's ability to write both elegant, haunting, ornate sentences, and--just as

I started reading this book because it is Black History Month and I thought it was appropriate to finally, after years of good intention, mark it in some way with my reading. Conveniently, I've been wanting to read something by Toni Morrison, and have often lifted her books from my shelf, examined the cover and read the back, but they've always been put back. I was never brave enough. The weight of reputation around her persona - and around some of her books - is heavy. I went with Paradise for

Sometimes you have to hold up your hands as a reader and admit maybe you didnt do a book justice. I found Paradise really difficult to follow. Mainly this is due to there being no central character. The central character instead is a town called Ruby where only blacks live and are free of white legislation and a nearby building known as the convent. The awfulness of men and magical prowess of women is its theme. Well not quite but the divisions drawn here are not between blacks and whites but

I swear, it's the most fulfilling when you read an author and you have ambiguous feelings towards them and their writing. But being an unbiased, fair, desperately enthusiastic reader; you come back to give it a second try and it will be with that second book that you make your definitive judgement towards the author either you like them or don't. You respect their writing and just can't get down with it or you think their writing is crap.I thought I didn't like Morrison. I respected her as I