A Mercy (Signed First Edition)

Toni Morrison

ISBN 10: 0307264238 / ISBN 13: 9780307264237

Published by Knopf, New York, 2008

About this Item

First Edition. First printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (her name only, without any other writing). Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Hardbound. Octavo. 167 pp. Gray boards stamped in gilt. A clean, crisp unread copy. Toni Morrison's ninth novel. In 2024, it was ranked 47th in the New York Times list of the best 100 books of the 21st century.

Seller Inventory # 1109-229

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Mercy (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307264238
• ISBN 13: 9780307264237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nobel Prize in Literature

About this title

Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

“Spellbinding. . . . Dazzling. . . . [A Mercy] stands alongside Beloved as a unique triumph.” —The Washington Post Book World

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.

About the Author

TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.