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Written & audio book performed by Toni Morrison - Abridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Random House Audio (April 1992)

A story of violence and passion set in Harlem in the 1920s. Joe Trace--in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products--shoots to death his teenaged lover of three months. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, herself a hairdresser--who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, and who talks mostly to birds--tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Richly combining history, legend, and reminiscence, Morrison captures the ineffable mood, the complex humanity of black urban life.

About the Author: Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She now divides her time between Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. She is the author of five other novels: Paradise, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book Critics Award for fiction, Tar Baby and Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.