A Mercy
Toni Morrison, , read by the author. . Random House Audio, $29.95 ( , unabridged, five CDs, 6.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3254-2
Some authors make mediocre readers, but Nobel Prize–winning Toni Morrison is certainly not among them. Her husky voice, lyrical rhythms and precise timing—especially of pauses within sentences or even phrases—give clarity and poignancy to her vivid metaphors and elegant prose. Set in the 1680s, this story tells of multiple forms of love and of slavery. Florens is a slave girl whose mother urges her sale to Jacob, a decent man, to save her from a rapist master. Florens feels abandoned and is finally betrayed by the lover she worships. Morrison holds the listener completely in thrall through her narrative, her characters, her language and her own fine reading. An enlightening interview with the author appears at the end.
Reviewed on: 12/22/2008
Genre: Audio
Compact Disc - 978-1-4159-5681-6
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