The Resource God help the child, Toni Morrison
God help the child, Toni Morrison
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The item God help the child, Toni Morrison represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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- Summary
- Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget
- Language
- eng
- Label
- God help the child
- Title
- God help the child
- Statement of responsibility
- Toni Morrison
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget
- Summary
- Traces the impact of childhood trauma on the lives of a beautiful multiracial woman, the man she loves, and an abused white girl who looks to her for help
- Award
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- BCALA Literary Award for Fiction, 2016.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2015
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10399824
- Cataloging source
- NOV
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Morrison, Toni
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Mothers and daughters
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- God help the child, Toni Morrison
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 178 pages
- Isbn
- 9780701186050
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9780701186050
- Label
- God help the child, Toni Morrison
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 178 pages
- Isbn
- 9780701186050
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9780701186050
Subject
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueChild abuse
- trueChild murders
- trueColor of African Americans
- trueCoping
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueHuman skin color
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLove
- trueMothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- truePsychic trauma
- truePsychological fiction
Genre
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- truePsychological fiction
Included in
- trueBCALA Literary Award: Fiction Category
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2015
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