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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.

Tar Baby

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    A Hardback by Toni Morrison

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Random House USA Inc
      Published 12 March 1981
      ISBN-13 9780394423296
      978-0394423296
      ISBN-10 0394423291
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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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