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Tar Baby

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Desiree Coleman
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Summary

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner

Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
©1982 Toni Morrison (P)2011 Random House
African American Classics Literary Fiction Fiction
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1993, Nobel Prize, Winner

“Deeply perceptive. . . . Return[s] risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel.” (John Irving, The New York Times Book Review)

“Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” (The Washington Post)

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Good book bad ending

Liked it. A bit of romance, nicely written kept me listening just wasnt happy with the ending I was left expecting more...

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