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4 weeks on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #11
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. “A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not only of love but of racial politics.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison’s protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey’s memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to outright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny, erotic, and heartwrenching.
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- ISBN-13
- 9781400041855
- ISBN-10
- 1400041856
- Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Google rating
- 4.5(10)
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