Love

Even the ones who wear scars like Presidential medals and stockings rolled at their ankles can’t hide the sugar-child, the winsome baby girl curled up somewhere inside, between the ribs, say, or under the heart. From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived audio that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. Especially the tough ones with their box cutters and dirty language, or the glossy ones with two-seated cars and a pocketbook full of dope. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is both the void in, and the centre of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces -- a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial.This audacious vision of the nature of love -- its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread -- is rich in characters and striking scenes, and in its profound understanding of how alive the past can be.A major addition to the canon of one of the world’s literary masters.This is coast country, humid and God fearing, where female recklessness runs too deep for short shorts or thongs or cameras. But then or now, decent underwear or none, wild women never could hide their innocence -- a kind of pitty-kitty hopefulness

"An Amazing But Frustrating Love Story" according to Kori. I'm in daily appreciation for the themes behind Love, although i’m not too crazy about the actual story. Which shocks me because the more I got to know about the Cosey family, Junior, and “L” I really began to delve into their individual histories as a gateway to understanding how these women could sacrifice their lives in the name of Billy Cosey?A man who was too p. "Tony Morrison Can Do No Wrong or The Blacker You Are the Tougher Life Is." according to maggie the magician. Tony Morrison can do no wrongthat's how I feel about her wr;iting, her marvelous language & her authenticity. She is a BRILLIANT writer, an astute thinker and one who understands people in all their complexities. She has laser insight, acute intuition and a deep understanding of the human condition.It is about the Blacks' caste system; the lighter you are, the greater your chances fo. Brian Hawkinson said Morrison's pregnant words and sentences. I am never disappointed when I pick up a Morrison novel. Love is a telling novel, one that, at first, is a little hard to get a hold of because Morrison doesn't spell everything out for you. Her chapters each consist of recursive narration, where we travel backwards in time to get the necessary explanation for the present point in the novel. With this being said, each chapter is a dy

Readers will experience in this smooth, sharp-eyed gem another instance of the Toni Morrison craftsmanship: she enters your mind, hangs a tale or two there, and leaves just as quietly as she came. Morrison introduces an enclave of people who react to one man--Bill Cosey--and to each other as they tell of his affect on generations of characters living in the seaside community. Sandler, a Cosey employee, is a brilliant agent of Morrison's descriptions of human behavior, "Then, in a sudden shift of subject that children and heavy drinkers enjoy, 'My son, Billy was about your age. Brooke Gilbert. --E. The first page of Toni Morrison's novel Love is a soft introduction to a narrator who pulls you in with her version of a tale of the ocean-side community of Up Beach, a once popular ocean resort. When he died, I