Toni Morrison: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Format: Paperback

$ 8.02

Intended Audience: General/trade Topic: American / African American, American / General, Literary Item Length: 8.1 in Author: Nikki Giovanni Publisher: Melville House Publishing Publication Year: 2020 gtin13: 9781612198736 ISBN: 9781612198736 Format: Trade Paperback Type: book Item Weight: 7.2 Oz Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography Book Title: Toni Morrison: the Last Interview : and Other Conversations Book Series: The Last Interview Ser. Item Height: 0.6 in Number of Pages: 192 Pages Item Width: 5.5 in Narrative Type: book Language: English

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“Knowledge is what’s important, you know?  Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.” — TONI MORRISON
 
In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews — including her first and last — Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a “national treasure”) details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family’s stories — such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative — that of herself.