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Driven by desire - Bookshelf - Love - Book Review
Ebony, Oct, 2003
LOVE (Alfred A. Knopf, $23.95) is the much-anticipated eighth novel by Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison--her first in the five years since Paradise--and it already is being hailed as "a heartening return to Nobel-worthy form." Morrison's latest work provides an intriguing look at the nature of love and its extremes, presenting the full range of desire, through a group of women whose lives have been dominated by one man--Bill Cosey.
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A millionaire owner of a Florida resort for Blacks, the late Cosey lives on in this story through flashback reminiscences of the power he had to create deep yearnings in the women who were attracted to him and, ultimately, possessed by him. We are drawn into the story, not only by what is revealed about Cosey and his power, but also by the secret forces that have driven his life. A hallmark of Morrison's writing, the past here, like a ghost, haunts. In Love, the much-celebrated Morrison, a professor at Princeton University, who also has taught at Yale University, Bard College and Rutgers University, has crafted a riveting story of richly drawn characters in textured scenes that, with a first printing of a half million copies, is destined to stir the passion of a wide audience.
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