Best Morrison, Toni

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times. “A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review. “Toni Morrison’s finest work. [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” — Chicago Sun-Times. An extraordinary work.” — The New York Times. Resonates from past to present.” — San Francisco Chronicle. “A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. “Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” — New York Review of Books. “A work of genuine force. Beautifully written.” — The Washington Post. “There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. a glorious book.” — The Baltimore Sun. A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. rich, provocative, extremely satisfying.” — Milwaukee Journal. Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” — The Plain Dealer. A lasting achievement.” — The Christian Science Monitor. “Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. One feels deep admiration.” — USA Today. Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” — The Village Voice. “A book worth many rereadings.” — Glamour. “In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Shattering emotional power and impact.” — New York Daily News.

3 compact discs/ 3 hours. Read by Toni Morrison and Ruby Dee. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, The Bluest Eye (1970) is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. “So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.”. — The New York Times.

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. Praise for Toni Morrison’s. GOD HELP THE CHILD. “Utterly compelling . Morrison remains an incredibly powerful writer who commands attention.”. –Roxane Gay, The Guardian “ God Save the Child is superb, its story gliding along the tracks of Morrison’s utterly assured prose.”. –Charles Finch, USA Today (critic's pick). “Morrison is such a masterful writer that even those who don’t prefer stream of conscious novels may find them sucked into these minds, turning page after page of this short novel until they’ve finished the book in one sitting.”. –Sarah Hutchins, Portland Book Review “Toni Morrison [is] still breaking new literary ground . ‘God Help the Child’ finds this American legend still breaking new ground and, as always, delivering an uncompromising and memorable novel.”. –Jack Pender, Waterloo Region Record “A wrenching tale.”. – Entertainment Weekly “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.”. –Andrew Ervin, Philadelphia Inquirer “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.”. – Cleveland Plain Dealer “[Morrison’s] powers are proudly on display in God Help the Child . Beautifully composed in a variety of distinct voices and covering a range of family concerns, God Help the Child employs a hint of magical realism and explores issues of race and women's lives familiar to fans of Morrison's fiction. –Julia Jenkins. “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.”. – Boston Globe “Another unflinching, gorgeously written story.”. – 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.”. – Dallas Morning News “Morrison has a Shakespearean sense of tragedy, and that gift imbues God Help the Child . The power is not in time travel; the power is in realizing we must move on and push forward to succeed.”. –SheKnows.com. “Morrison . And which this novel is very readable, the pleasure is in working for its deeper rewards.”. – 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.”. – Independent on Sunday “Not for nothing has Morrison been garlanded with a Novel Prize, Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award. A highly personal and affecting tale that manages to be deftly political, God Help the Child is emotionally rousing and gut-wrenching.”. – 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.”. – Big Issue in the North “Powerful . 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.”. –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Toni Morrison is one of the gods who walk among us. 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 to add to her canon of eloquent, brilliantly conceived novels defining the crises and cultural shifts of our times . Once again, Morrison thrillingly brings the storytelling moxie and mojo that make her, arguably, our greatest living novelist.”. –Lisa Shea, ELLE Magazine “A chilling oracle and a lively storyteller, Nobel winner Morrison continues the work she began 45 years ago with The Bluest Eye .”. – Kirkus (Starred Review). “Another dazzler from Nobel laureate Morrison.”. –Barbara Hoffert’s Fiction Picks, Library Journal “Emotionally-wrenching .

Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the daring and adventurous young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth. Anne McCaffrey, the Hugo Award-winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern® novels, is one of science fiction’s most popular authors.

Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena -- once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. Accompanied by an inappropriate railroad accountant from Brooklyn, a reluctant Texas deputy and gangling, awkward Pea Eye Parker (who is trying to give up the Ranger life and settle down to farming and family with the lovely ex-whore Lorena), Call sets off, roaming the border country in his competent, unassuming fashion. As in some great 19th-century saga, the story has more than its share of improbable coincidences--people meeting fortuitously in thousands of square miles of empty territory, hearing vital news at appropriate and inappropriate moments--but these seem only mild contrivances to shape a story packed with action, terror, humor and pathos.

This epic story, here presented in unabridged form, receives an equally epic reading from the outstanding American actor William Hootkins. The enthusiastic study of the parts of the whale contrasts with the darker innuendos on God; the colorful excitability of Stubb butts up against the diabolic indifference of Ahab's Fedallah.