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A Mercy is Toni Morrison's ninth novel. It was published in 2008. Set in colonial America in the late 17th century, it is the story of a European farmer, his purchased wife, and his growing household of indentured or enslaved white, Native American, and African characters.
Jan 1, 2008 · A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter - a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
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Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize win made her the first African-American to ever to earn the distinction. She was also the first American woman to win the award in 55 years. The best study guide to A Mercy on the planet, from the creators of SparkNotes. Get the summaries, analysis, and quotes you need.
Women, men, Africans, Native Americans, whites, masters, slaves–all are cast into the hard world that is the New World in Toni Morrison’s lustrous new novel. In the same way, the Nobel Prize winner casts us into her hypnotic, many-voiced narrative set in the 17th century in a nation yet unformed. . . .
A Mercy is a novel by Toni Morrison about sixteen-year-old Florens, who lives as a slave. Florens, a young slave girl, is sold to the Vaark family at the age of eight. Her mother stays...
Aug 11, 2009 · A Mercy tracks the beginnings of a system of oppression by focusing on the psychology of that oppression. . . . Powerful . . . Poetic.” –Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times “Compelling . . . [A Mercy] slyly probes the roots of American class and race resentment, and posits a plausible creation myth for our enduring culture war.
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Nov 11, 2008 · A Mercy. Toni Morrison. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 11, 2008 - Fiction - 208 pages. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In “one of Morrison’s most haunting works” (The New York Times), the acclaimed...
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A Mercy. Toni Morrison. Random House Large Print, 2008 - Fiction - 273 pages. A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning...
Oct 28, 2008 · Set in the 1680s, when this country's reliance on slavery as an economic engine was just beginning, A Mercy explores the repercussions of an enslaved mother's desperate act:...
