TY  - BOOK
TI  - Paradise
SN  - 0679433740
AV  - PS3563.O8749 P37 1998
U1  - F/MOR 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Alfred K. Knopf
N2  - In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it; From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out there . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose."
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