Tar Baby With a foreword by the author

Wonderful... A triumph New York Times

"Deeply perceptive...Return[s] risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel" -- John Irving New York Times Book Review "Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability" New York Times "Toni Morrison's writing is a train that knows where it's going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description" -- Victoria Glendinning Sunday Times "Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose-She has the ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the hallmark of a genuine writer" Guardian "Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language...One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison' s story" Washington Post