New York. 1998. January 1998. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket . 0679433740. 321 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. keywords: Literature Black America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are 17 miles from a town which has 90 miles between it and any other. Hiding places will be plentiful in the Convent, but there is time and the day has just begun. 'They are nine, over twice the number of women they are obliged to stampede or kill and they have the paraphernalia for either requirement: rope, a palm leaf cross, handcuffs, Mace and sunglasses, along with clean, handsome guns.' So begins Toni Morrison's hypnotic and arresting new novel, Paradise, and so will it effectively and hauntingly end. The visit of cruel rage to the Convent frames Paradise, it literally collects and distills all the rich, churning history of this community, focusing the past so that one can say, '[T]he venom is manageable now. Shooting the first woman (the white one) has clarified it like butter: the pure oil of hatred on top, its hardness stabilized below.' The cruelty called forth at the Convent will hold and completely transform Morrison's searing account of Ruby, Oklahoma, transform it for the reader as well as for the unhinged citizens of this town. And the slaughter will transform ...

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Knopf, Date: 1997-12-24. Hardcover. Acceptable. 6x1x9. 1997. Knopf ISBN 0679433740 9780679433743 [US]

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ISBN10: 0679433740, ISBN13: 9780679433743, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, United States, New York] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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A.A. Knopf, Date: 1998. Fine. Morrison, Toni. Paradise. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1998. 318pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. 1998. A.A. Knopf ISBN 0679433740 9780679433743 [US]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. VG/G+ DJ Price-Clipped, Lightly Edgeworn. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. DJ In Mylar Wrap. Pages: 321.. Date: 1998. Later Printing. Hardcover.. 1998. Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 0679433740 9780679433743 [US]

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Date: 1997. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1997. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 0679433740 9780679433743 [US]

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