Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Morrison's Beloved

From: Brian Thornton ( tieresias@worldnet.att.net)
Date: 16 Oct 2002


At 11:36 AM 10/16/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Beloved is a pretty hard read: some horrible things happen. It is a story
>of survival. (There's a lot more to it, though.) Like all the other books
>by Toni Morrison that I've read, it has a supernatural element that
>doesn't really appeal to me.

Toni Morrison is a hard read, period. She is a true challenge (moreso even that Faulkner). If my brain were bigger, I would enjoy her more. I do not, however, consider her to be remotely hard-boiled.

Brian

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