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Love by Toni Morrison explores the complex relationships and hidden histories of the Cosey family, focusing on the legacy of its enigmatic patriarch, Bill Cosey. Set in a once-thriving seaside resort, the novel delves into themes of love, jealousy, and betrayal, weaving through the lives of the women tied to Cosey and revealing how past events continue to shape their present and future. The narrative intricately examines how love in its various forms can both unite and destroy.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to richly woven narratives that explore the complexities of human relationships and emotions. With its haunting prose and deeply layered storytelling, this book delves into themes of love, betrayal, and redemption, inviting readers to reflect on the enduring bonds and turbulence between its unforgettable characters.

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Love is a haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious vision from a master storyteller on the nature of love - its appetite, its sublime possession, and its consuming dread - is rich in characters and dramatic events. It offers profound sensitivity to just how alive the past can be.

Sensual, elegiac, and unforgettable, Love ultimately comes full circle to that indelible, overwhelming first love that marks us forever.

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction.

'Love is her best work...a slender but mesmerising tale' - Evening Standard

Series: Vintage American Gothic

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Love by Toni Morrison explores the complex dynamics of love, power, and the past's influence on the present. Critics admire Morrison's lyrical prose and deep exploration of themes such as betrayal, obsession, and family ties. The characters are noted to be intricately drawn, with their interwoven stories revealing the pervasive impact of love and secrets across generations.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784878535

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 September 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 152g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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