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Summary: Wait A Minute....
Review: This book is getting trashed, and unfairly so. Tar Baby is not her finest work (Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved are her classics) yet this book is one of the best written in recent history. Yes. That is how powerful her writing is; this is not her best but it still stands as one of the peaks in modern literature. The poetic images, Biblical, social, and personal symbolism and relations are what makes Morrison the quintessential; and make her average work, still far above others' best. The book is not an easy read. This is not reading the daily paper. Just like anything in life, what is worthwhile takes focus and time. I can whip through the works of Crichton and Grisham in a month and still would not get the knowledge and perspective that Tar Baby or almost any Morrison novel can offer. If you want a light, airy read never take on the challenges of Morrison. If you want literature that has weight and an array of beautiful images and philosophies then Tar Baby! is worth the effort of resisting the quick read and delving into this text.
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Summary: My First
Review: This was the first book I read by Toni Morrison . I beleive I was 10 years old and it was exactly what I neede to hear. As a dark-skinned Black girl, I had images about me thrust upon me, but to read someone articulate all this subterfuge about me regarding color, colorism within the Black community was amazing. I no longer felt like I was the only one. that was along tme ago, but upon re-reading 'Tar Baby' last Summer, I wa still amazed how powerful this book is.
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Summary: Long
Review: Very Long and didn't like the ending but other than that it was okay- don't regret reading it
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Summary: Black And White And A Whole Lot More
Review: _Tar Baby_ tells of the relationships of a wealthy white couple, Valerian and his wife, Margaret, and a black couple, Sydney and Onadine, who have been their servants for many years. The setting is a manor on an island in the Caribbean. One of the subplots concerns Margaret's tortured relationship with her estranged son, Michael. Onadine shares a terrible secret with Margaret concerning the son. Adding to the novel's complexity is the black couple's beautiful niece, Jadine, who lives with them and who has received an education at the Sorbonne, paid for in entirety by Valerian. Jadine finds herself torn between the black world and the white world, fitting into neither. To further complicate matters, Jadine later falls in love with a handsome black man who is called "Son," among other names, who has hidden himself in one of Margaret's closets after jumping ship. He is also on the lam due to his previous commission of a foolish crime of passion. Realizing her potential, Jadine is frightened of being trapped, like the limited, poorly educated, dirt poor women whom she meets while on an extended visit to Son's friends and family in Florida. Jadine is suffocating in this atmosphere, and is particularly haunted at night by obesssive thoughts of the women. To Jadine, Son will always remain their "son," an ignorant and irresponsible child, without any direction in life. This deliciously complex novel of race, family, and above all, human relations, could only have been done justice by writer of the caliber and sensitivity of a Toni Morrison. Ms. Morrison, an African-American and a woman, is able to find the nuances and subtleties inherent in the black experience that someone else would have difficulty understanding. _Tar Baby_ is a triumph in every way.
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