{"product_id":"recitatif-a-story-hardcover","title":"Recitatif: A Story - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eToni Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BEST SELLER \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eA beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner--for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A puzzle of a story, then--a game.... When [Morrison] called \u003ci\u003eRecitatif\u003c\/i\u003e an 'experiment' she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader.\" --Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnother work of genius by this masterly writer, \u003ci\u003eRecitatif\u003c\/i\u003e keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described \u003ci\u003eRecitatif\u003c\/i\u003e, a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as \"an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial.\" We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, \u003ci\u003eRecitatif\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift to readers in these changing times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Autograph Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia\u003c\/i\u003e, and two collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Feel Free\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Other People\u003c\/i\u003e. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51997028679981,"sku":"9780593315033","price":17.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/dGZEb0dHb0hCQ1pkcHhOeXk3QXNMUT09.webp?v=1776458824","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/recitatif-a-story-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}