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Love

By Toni Morrison

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| Paperback | 9780099455493

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From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearContinue

From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is both the void in, and the centre of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces -- a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial.

This audacious vision of the nature of love -- its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread -- is rich in characters and striking scenes, and in its profound understanding of how alive the past can be.

A major addition to the canon of one of the world’s literary masters.

This is coast country, humid and God fearing, where female recklessness runs too deep for short shorts or thongs or cameras. But then or now, decent underwear or none, wild women never could hide their innocence -- a kind of pitty-kitty hopefulness that their prince was on his way. Especially the tough ones with their box cutters and dirty language, or the glossy ones with two-seated cars and a pocketbook full of dope. Even the ones who wear scars like Presidential medals and stockings rolled at their ankles can’t hide the sugar-child, the winsome baby girl curled up somewhere inside, between the ribs, say, or under the heart. -- from Love


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Critics

  • A tangled web

    Love by Toni Morrison 212pp, Chatto & Windus, £16.99 Nobel Prize winner, Princeton professor, Oprah Book Club best-seller - Toni Morrison long ago reached that peak of literary veneration at which her regal, high-priestess face alone is sufficient ad ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • A legacy of hate

    Love by Toni Morrison Chatto & Windus £16.99, pp212 Love is conspicuously absent from Toni Morrison's eighth novel. Despite the title, the word is spoken only once by a living person. Like the ghosts haunting Morrison's fictional houses, however, lov ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • I was expecting more from this novel.It ends up being quite boring and fails to provide that sense of suspence that the author clearly struggles to create. The whole plot is quite confusing and very complicated, there are too many characters which overlap and the reader really struggles to keep up w ... (continue)

    I was expecting more from this novel.It ends up being quite boring and fails to provide that sense of suspence that the author clearly struggles to create. The whole plot is quite confusing and very complicated, there are too many characters which overlap and the reader really struggles to keep up with what's going on and with who's saying and doing what, etc. The "mystery" unbundles too further on in the book, and even then it's neither exciting nor intriguing. A bit of a let down, to be honest, and surely not Morrison's best attempt.

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    All Sparks Will Burn Out said on Jan 10, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • Although I enjoyed this book I somehow felt it was not complete. At around two hundred pages I felt that the different sections within the book would have been more interesting if they were more detailed therefore longer? I somehow felt I was not getting the full story! I finished it so quickly and ... (continue)

    Although I enjoyed this book I somehow felt it was not complete. At around two hundred pages I felt that the different sections within the book would have been more interesting if they were more detailed therefore longer? I somehow felt I was not getting the full story! I finished it so quickly and was somewhat surprised when it ended!
    Synopsis Amazon.co.uk
    Compelling, sensual, elegiac, unforgettable - a major new work by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, about desire, sex, lust, obsession, yearning, and ultimately about love. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L; all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is both the void in, and the centre of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces - a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial. This audacious vision of the nature of love - its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread - is rich in characters and striking scenes, and in its profound understanding of how alive the past can be. Love is a major addition to the canon of one of the world's literary masters.

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    Lindyloumac said on Sep 28, 2009 | Add your feedback

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