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Tar Baby
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Published:
Books on Tape 2007
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OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner

Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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Street Date:
12/04/2007
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781415951644
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Toni Morrison. (2007). Tar Baby. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Toni Morrison. 2007. Tar Baby. Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Toni Morrison, Tar Baby. Books on Tape, 2007.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2007.

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