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Title	:	Tar Baby
Author	:	Toni Morrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	June 8th 2004 by Vintage (first published 1981)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Classics. Novels

Tar Baby

Toni Morrison

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 16970 Users | 573 Reviews

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Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. 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.

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Original Title:	Tar Baby
ISBN:	1400033446 (ISBN13: 9781400033447)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Valerian Street
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

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Wow. I shall be needing to sleep on this book....

Tar Baby by Toni MorrisonIts a poem, really... in spite of the brilliant characterizations, dead-on dialogue, penetrating observations, toxic lovers quarrels, and tender romance. Its really a poem... an allegory. Son, a handsome, intelligent, but uneducated black man from Eloe, a small town in north Florida, jumps ship in the Caribbean and eventually ends up on a small island called Isle des Chevaliers (Island of the horseman). Hes on the run, has committed a crime, and is tired of worrying

Not a bad book, there are some things that I'm still working out and I'm waiting for the rest of the book club to come together so I can get a better handle on the story. Right now, 3 stars, but I'm giving it room to grow upon considerable reflection.

I simply can't stomach a book in which I'm expected to accept that a woman falls in love with a man who essentially sexually assaults her, and whose justification for it is explicitly that he was so in awe of her that he needed to debase her.This is the core of the "romantic relationship" at the center of this book, and while the book is critical of the gender dynamics in Jadine and Son's relationship as they attempt to sort out whose world they will live in and whose relationship model they

It's a bit awkward for me to write a good review for anything Toni Morrison has written, if only because, after I read Beloved, I condemned her. But Tar Baby was far different than anything I suffered through in her most popular novel. In fact, almost everything I hated about Beloved was almost nonexistent in this book.To compare the two novels doesn't make sense because while Beloved is set in Reconstruction America, Tar Baby is mostly set in circa 1970s Caribbean with a few sprinkles of the

My personal opinion on the book? Well, I believe that the book was terrible and I would not recommend this book to anyone. I say that because the book was altogether irrelevant and I did not understand why it was written. To add fuel to the fire, it was boring. There was no action whatsoever and the first few chapters of the book was meaningless. If I had to give the book a rating out of 5 stars, I would literally give it a 1 star. I would give it that because at least she tried to write

It is difficult to explain the force that permeates Toni Morrison's books. I felt drunk on words by the end of this book.In this book's foreword Toni Morrison writes: "All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listenfor silence, inflection, rhythm, rest. Then comes the image, the picture of the thing I have to invent to invent: the headless bride in her wedding gown; the forest clearing."I took these words to be instructive and tried to read this story this