Toni Morrison

Beloved - Jazz - Paradise

Vintage Living Texts

Contemporary Literature in Closeup

by Lousia Joyner

with Margaret Reynolds and Jonathan Noakes

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Toni Morrison. Vintage Living Texts, is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Toni Morrison, relating specifically to the texts under discussion.

This guide deals with Morrison's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts is accompanied by likely exam questions - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, a critical overview, a biography, a bibliography, and a glossary of literary terms.

Whether a teacher, student or general reader, Vintage Living Texts gives you the chance to explore new resources and enjoy new pleasures.

The Vintage Living Texts series includes: Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Louis de Bernières, Sebastian Faulks, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson.