Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Toni Morrison
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: From the 1930’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: The southeast coast of the United States
- Principal Characters: Bill Cosey, May Cosey, Christine Cosey, Heed the Night Johnson Cosey, Dark Cosey, L, Junior Viviane, Sandler Gibbons, Vida Gibbons, Romen, Celestial
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Civil rights, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Class conflict, Blacks, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Supernatural, 1940’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, Women, Hotels, motels, or inns, Money, 1990’s, Real estate, Monsters
- Locales: Southeast (U.S.)
Toni Morrison has dealt with the complexities of love before—parental love, love between friends, romantic love, even supernatural love. Its need and its absence seem to be at the heart of every novel she has written, from her very first, The Bluest Eye (1970), through Paradise (1998). This incarnation of Love, her brief, intricate eighth novel, begins with a monologue, a soft, reassuring woman’s voice that introduces both characters and setting. The voice belongs to L, a chef and “an old woman embarrassed by the world.” An important fixture in this world,...
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