{"product_id":"the-measure-of-our-lives-a-gathering-of-wisdom-hardcover","title":"The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eToni Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt once the ideal introduction to the legendary Nobel Prize winner and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. - With a foreword by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Zadie Smith. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller.\" --Oprah Winfrey \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child, \u003c\/i\u003e from \u003ci\u003ePlaying in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Source of Self-Regard--\u003c\/i\u003eto tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIts compelling sequence of flashes of revelation--stunning for their linguistic originality, keenness of psychological observation, and philosophical profundity--addresses issues of abiding interest in Morrison's work: the reach of language for the ineffable; transcendence through imagination; the self and its discontents; the vicissitudes of love; the whirligig of memory; the singular power of women; the original American sin of slavery; the bankruptcy of racial oppression; the complex humanity and art of black people. \u003ci\u003eThe Measure of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e brims with elegance of style and mind and moral authority.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels, from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1970) to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZADIE SMITH 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 6.6 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769554993440,"sku":"9780525659297","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/28aa5758b084f125b448e1d111952bd1.webp?v=1780350732","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-measure-of-our-lives-a-gathering-of-wisdom-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}