Love
Toni Morrison
A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious vision from a master storyteller on the nature of love – its appetite, its sublime possession, and its consuming dread – is rich in characters and dramatic events, and in its profound sensitivity to just how alive the past can be. Sensual, elegiac and unforgettable, Love ultimately comes full circle to that indelible, overwhelming first love that marks us forever.
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
‘Love is her best work…a slender but mesmerising tale’ Evening Standard
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Reviews for Love
Guardian
Love is a brilliant book... Into a short narrative she packs mystery, suspense and a multi-stranded tale told with extraordinary deftness
Financial Times
This is a novel that demands to be read at least twice, for it is so rich and satisfying that it sweeps you into a subtle world that you need time to take in... Quite breathtaking
Daily Mail
Love's power lies in the luminosity and energy of its poetic images
Observer
Love is her best work yet, a slender but mesmerising tale
Evening Standard
When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose
Spectator
Morrison's imagery is as striking and her narrative technique as powerful as ever
Sunday Telegraph
This novel is a searing, haunting, yet beautiful masterpiece. The story resonates in the mind long after the last page is turned. Buy it. Read it
Scotland on Sunday
An affecting and absorbing novel
Sunday Times