Tar Baby

Tar BabyRavishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. 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

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story.

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.

"Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability." --New York

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/08/2004
ISBN: 9781400033447
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.87h x 5.20w x 0.71d

Review Citations: Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30