07392cam a2200589 4500 235116645 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385353175 0385353170 B00Q1I8MY6 Amazon abedb06d-aebf-4e04-a7b0-8517662f8186 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2044716 OverDrive (Product ID) 204834 2044716 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child [Libby] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 398kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 398kB. Fiction. African American Fiction. "Morrison possesses enough generosity of spirit to see a few glimmering moments of genuine hope amid the ruin, along with the intellectual heft needed to understand their context, and the graciousness to share them with us.". HTML:Andrew Ervin, Philadelphia Inquirer. HTML:"The prose is lean, uncluttered. Morrison's novelistic architectures have always been exceptionally well-designed; she crafts the vessels, carefully and uniquely to each story, before pouring in the water, and God Help the Child is no exception.". HTML:Cleveland Plain Dealer. HTML:"[Morrison's] powers are proudly on display in God Help the Child. At its best, this new novel demonstrates that the author is, as she suggested recently in a New York Times Magazine profile, fully capable of writing novels forever.". HTML:The Atlantic. "With 'God Help Help the Child,' Morrison gives us an unflinching look at the wounds that adults can inflict on children with life-altering consequences . . . By the final page, 'God Help the Child' reminds us that few authors can deliver exquisitely written prose as Morrison.". Patrik Bass, Essence.com. "A slim, modest work that still manages to pack an emotional wallop.". HTML:Boston Globe. "Another unflinching, gorgeously written story.". HTML:San Francisco Chronicle. "Every page contains at least one passage of breathtaking prose, a lyrical flow accentuated by stark imagery and laden with poetic contrasts.". HTML:Dallas Morning News. HTML:"Morrison has a Shakespearean sense of tragedy, and that gift imbues God Help the Child. The ending is exquisite, bringing to mind Gwendolyn Brooks' wonderful lines: 'Art hurts. Art urges voyages -- and it is easier to stay at home.'". HTML:Newsday. "A book to be read twice at a minimum -- the first time for the story, and the second time to savor the language, the gems of phrasing and the uncomfortable revelations about the human capacity both to love and destroy.". HTML:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Succinct but beautiful, with a powerful message that will reach readers of all demographics, because frankly, we all have things in our pasts we'd like to change. The power is not in time travel; the power is in realizing we must move on and push forward to succeed.". SheKnows.com. HTML:"Morrison . . . proved with God Help the Child that her writing is still as fresh, adventurous and vigorous as ever . . . Morrison's characteristically deft temporal she fits and precisely hones language deliver literary riches galore. And which this novel is very readable, the pleasure is in working for its deeper rewards.". HTML:The Observer. "Like a Picasso painting telling a story in a multi-dimensional series of superimposed snapshot as each character becomes ever more rounded and complete.". HTML:Independent on Sunday. HTML:"Not for nothing has Morrison been garlanded with a Novel Prize, Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award. There's always a sense of grand occasion when Morrison releases a book, and with good reason: the journey is always vivid, dazzling and rich, each paragraph a mealy morsel in its own right. A highly personal and affecting tale that manages to be deftly political, God Help the Child is emotionally rousing and gut-wrenching.". HTML:Irish Independent. "True to style, the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning Morrison uses simple yet poetic prose as she tackles timely issues in a timeless way.". HTML:Big Issue in the North. "Powerful . . . attests to her ability to write intensely felt chamber pieces that inhabit a twilight world between fable and realism, and to convey the desperate yearnings of her characters for safety and love and belonging . . . Writing with gathering speed and assurance as the book progresses, Ms. Morrison works her narrative magic, turning the Ballad of Bride and Booker into a tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant.". HTML:Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times. "Toni Morrison is one of the gods who walk among us. A righteous, fearless teller of necessary truths . . . sensually written and commanding.". HTML:Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair, May 2015. "It is a beautiful thing to watch Morrison move characters through the full range of human emotion and into cathartic transformation. Here, Morrison shows us the importance of not holding on to what needs to be put down; the necessity of forgiveness, the necessity of beginning again.". Hope Wabuke, The Root. "Nobel laureate Morrison continues t. Jane Ciabatt. HTML:Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget." A fierce and provocative novel that adds a new dimension to the matchless oeuvre of Toni Morrison. From the Hardcover edition.. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:42. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=abedb06d-aebf-4e04-a7b0-8517662f8186 https://samples.overdrive.com/god-help-the-abedb0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/god-help-the-abedb0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/god-help-the-abedb0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXOLT