A Mercy - Hardcover
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A Mercy - Hardcover
$25.95
by Toni Morrison (Author)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "Spellbinding. . . . Dazzling. . . . [A Mercy] stands alongside Beloved as a unique triumph." --The Washington Post Book World In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.Author Biography
Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey.
Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.88 x 9.56 x 5.88 IN
Publication Date: November 11, 2008
Award: ALA Notable Books (2010)
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Mercy
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 7
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