Toni Morrison: The Essential Guide (Vintage Living Texts, 14)

Joyner, Louisa,Noakes, Jonathan,Reynolds, Margaret

ISBN 10: 009943766X / ISBN 13: 9780099437666

Published by Vintage, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toni Morrison: The Essential Guide (Vintage Living Texts, 14)
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 009943766X
• ISBN 13: 9780099437666
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Toni Morrison. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Toni Morrison, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Morrison's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

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In Vintage Living Texts, students, teachers, and general readers will find essential guides to some of the most exciting works in contemporary literature. Each guide focuses on three or four works by a major novelist; the series is unique in that it offers exclusive in depth interviews with the authors relating specifically to the texts under discussion. Readers are introduced to the writers themes, genres, and narrative techniques, and a close reading of the guides provides a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Each of these outstanding books is complete with detailed reading plans for the novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative readings, extracts from reviews, and a biography, bibliography, and glossary of literary terms.