Name: Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations - Melville House
Brand: Melville House
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nA wide-ranging collection of talks with the beloved author finds her refreshingly candid about her books and her life, race and misogyny, and more. In this generous collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- the author Barack Obama called a national treasure talks with a wide variety of people, from Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Bill Moyers to obscure bloggers. She details not only her writing life and her influences, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. nKnowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it. -- TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a national treasure) details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family's stories -- such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South. With an introduction by her close friend, poet Nikki Giovani, Morrison hereby weaves yet another fascinating and inspiring narrative -- that of herself. nKnowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it. -- TONI MORRISON In this wid