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  TONI MORRISON

  TAR BABY

  Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey.

  ALSO BY TONI MORRISON

  FICTION

  Love

  Paradise

  Jazz

  Beloved

  Song of Solomon

  Sula

  The Bluest Eye

  NONFICTION

  The Dancing Mind

  Playing in the Dark:

  Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

  Acclaim for

  TONI MORRISON’S

  TAR BABY

  “That rare commodity, a truly public novel…. Morrison’s genius lies in her uncanny ability to immerse you totally in the world she creates.”

  —Newsweek

  “Powerful…. A stunning performance…. Morrison is one of the most exciting living American writers.”

  —The Kansas City Star

  “It takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships.”

  —Vogue

  “Wise, beautiful, astonishing, absolutely breathtaking.”

  —St. Louis Globe-Democrat

  “Reminds us again that Toni Morrison is one of the finest writers in America today.”

  —Louisville Courier-Journal

  “Tar Baby is stupendous. Morrison is a writer of amazing skill.”

  —The Roanoke Times & World

  “Its scope is grand and the interplay complex. But Morrison has the control of a skilled choreographer, with a careful eye pinned on pacing, suspense, grace, and frenzy…. She has an awesome lyric flair.”

  —The Charlotte Observer

  FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JUNE 2004

  Copyright © 1981, 2004 by Toni Morrison

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1981.

  Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

  Morrison, Toni.

  Tar baby.

  I. Title.

  PS3563.08749 T37 1981

  813'-5'4

  80-22821

  www.vintagebooks.com

  eISBN: 978-0-307-38815-5

  v3.0

 


 

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