A Mercy Contributor(s): Morrison, Toni (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307264238 ISBN-13: 9780307264237 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2008 Annotation: A new novel, set, like "Beloved," in the American past. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2008021067 |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.88" W x 9.56" L (0.85 lbs) 176 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Features: Price on Product |
Awards: ALA Notable Books, Winner, Fiction, 2010 |
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/15/2008 pg. 46 Time 09/08/2008 pg. 64 Booklist 09/01/2008 pg. 5 Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2008 pg. 912 Publishers Weekly 09/15/2008 pg. 42 Library Journal 10/15/2008 pg. 58 Time 11/03/2008 pg. 75 New Yorker (The) 11/03/2008 pg. 112 Library Journal 11/01/2008 pg. 80 Entertainment Weekly 11/14/2008 pg. 75 People Weekly 11/17/2008 pg. 49 Essence 12/01/2008 pg. 87 Ebony 12/01/2008 pg. 56 Vanity Fair 12/01/2008 pg. 294 Village Voice 11/19/2008 pg. 38 Christian Century 02/24/2009 pg. 46 New York Times Book Review 11/30/2008 pg. 1 NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2008 pg. 10 New York Times Book Review 12/07/2008 pg. 64 LJ Best Books of Year 12/15/2008 pg. 64 Village Voice Best Books 12/10/2008 pg. 44 New York Times Book Review 12/14/2008 pg. 9 Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2009 pg. 11 New York Review of Books 03/12/2009 pg. 35 Publishers Weekly Best Books 03/23/2009 pg. 19 LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2008 pg. 64 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 128034 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root. Jacob 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, "with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady." Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved. There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress, Rebekka, herself a victim of religious intolerance back in England; Sorrow, a strange girl who's spent her early years at sea; and finally the devastating voice of Florens' mother. These are all men and women inventing themselves in the wilderness. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. Acts of mercy may have unforeseen consequences. |
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