Race and Class
Morrison, Toni
Race and Class TAR BABY by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf. 306 pp. $11.95) This multi-layered novel explores modern-day race and class relations and demon-strates how the personal frequently...
...11.95) This multi-layered novel explores modern-day race and class relations and demon-strates how the personal frequently tran-scends the sociological...
...The many lyrical descriptions provide a texture rare in current novels...
...Their eventual affair destroys the carefully performed roles of the other four and ulti-mately shifts the balance of power between the black and white couples, just as the balance within their relationship is shifted over time...
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...Based on legend and rieh in insight, Tar Baby assures Toni Morrison's place among today's most talente...
...Much of the action occurs in a house on a small Caribbean island inhabited by two couples—rieh white Philadelphians and their mobile black ser-vants—and visited by a young, upwardly black woman and a penniless black fugitive...
Vol. 45 • September 1981 • No. 9
