The Measure of Our Lives - by Toni Morrison (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This is a Borzoi book"--Copyright page.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>At once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. With a foreword by Zadie Smith. <p/>She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller. --Oprah Winfrey</b> <p/>This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from <i>The Bluest Eye</i> to <i>God Help the Child, </i> from <i>Playing in the Dark</i> to <i>The Source of Self-Regard</i>--to tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision. <p/>Its compelling sequence of flashes of revelation--stunning for their linguistic originality, keenness of psychological observation, and philosophical profundity--addresses issues of abiding interest in Morrison's work: the reach of language for the ineffable; transcendence through imagination; the self and its discontents; the vicissitudes of love; the whirligig of memory; the singular power of women; the original American sin of slavery; the bankruptcy of racial oppression; the complex humanity and art of black people. <i>The Measure of Our Lives</i> brims with elegance of style and mind and moral authority.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Toni Morrison</b> is the author of eleven novels, from <i>The Bluest Eye</i> (1970) to <i>God Help the Child</i> (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019. <p/><b>Zadie Smith</b> is the author of the novels <i>White Teeth</i>, <i>The Autograph Man</i>, <i>On Beauty</i>, <i>NW</i> and <i>Swing Time</i>, as well as a novella, <i>The Embassy of Cambodia</i>, and two collections of essays, <i>Changing My Mind </i>and<i> Feel Free</i>. She is also the editor of <i>The Book of Other People</i>. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. <i>White Teeth</i> won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. <i>On Beauty</i> was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and <i>NW</i> was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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