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      Tar Baby

      by Toni Morrison
      Published
      Mar 1981
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      A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner

      Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.

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      Apr 1983 Signet ISBN 0451152603
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      Feb 1993 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN 0816132933
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