God Help the Child The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the onl
| TITLE | : | God Help the Child |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.58 (724 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0307399753 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 192 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2015-04-21 |
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The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the centre: a 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 until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish. Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to unders
EDITORIAL :
An Best Book of April 2015: “What you do to children matters…” This foreboding phrase informs the latest masterful novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. The story, at its heart, is about the devastating consequences of a light-skinned mother who rejects her dark-skinned child. Bride, the daughter, goes on to become a successful cosmetics mogul, but that success doesn’t translate to her personal life--Her inability to heal from childhood wounds stunts (even literally) her growth. Anyone familiar with Morrison’s oeuvre knows that she isn’t shy about lingering uncomfortably long in the bleakest of places, and at times the weight of this slender book seems almost too much to bear. But where there is darkness there is light, at least in Bride’s case, and this contrast serves to make her attempts at reshaping her destiny
REVIEW :
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I would welcome a second (and larger) edition with some of the holes filled in that could work in tandem with the online docs. I believe Morrison went on a venture from the usual, and for that I commend her. If you are in need of help with Online Reputation Management, or even just trying to learn more, this book was written for you. it's refreshing. Holmes is one mysterious figure that I would love to read more about. She is beautiful, well dressed and obviously educ
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