The Resource Recitatif : a story, Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith
Recitatif : a story, Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith
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The item Recitatif : a story, Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Deschutes Public Library.
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- Summary
- A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner? for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith ? "A puzzle of a story, then?a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ?experiment??she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader." ?Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story?the only short story Morrison ever wrote?we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. ? Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif , a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? ? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Recitatif : a story
- Title
- Recitatif
- Title remainder
- a story
- Statement of responsibility
- Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner? for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith ? "A puzzle of a story, then?a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ?experiment??she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader." ?Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story?the only short story Morrison ever wrote?we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. ? Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif , a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? ? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Morrison, Toni
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3563.O8749
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Female friendship
- Women's friendships
- Friendships
- Homosociality
- Label
- Recitatif : a story, Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith
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- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1295114072
- Dimensions
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- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780593315040
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1295114072
- Label
- Recitatif : a story, Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1295114072
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780593315040
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- adac37c4-f1cf-41de-9c37-b668c14ce723
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1295114072
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