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Recitatif : A Story by Toni Morrison (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDiversified Publishing

ISBN-10059355664X

ISBN-139780593556641

eBay Product ID (ePID)9050073440

Product Key Features

Book TitleRecitatif : a Story

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAfrican American / Contemporary Women, African American / General, Coming of Age, Literary

Publication Year2022

FeaturesLarge Type

GenreFiction

AuthorToni Morrison

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight3 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.7 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"The only short story ever written by the Nobel Prize-winning Morrison is also a thought experiment, illuminated here by Smith's close analysis of equal length. . . . A uniquely interesting and enlightening reading experience." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Dewey Edition23/eng/20220111

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

SynopsisA beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison. In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterful writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif , a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times.