A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
A large, rich, heterogeneous book, and hallelujah... Mouth Full
of Blood is a bracing reminder of what words do, how carefully
they should and can be used... magnificent [and] rigorously argued
-- RO Kwon * Guardian *
Morrison's voice rings out, bold and hopeful, welcoming us into a
world where moral integrity reigns * Culture Whisperer *
Mouth Full of Blood demonstrate[s] the writer's enduring
eagerness to examine the contradictions of being both "native" and
"alien" to her own country... She takes pride in challenging a
traditional literary canon... at every stage, the reader is
grateful for an author allowing, encouraging even, such intimate
access to their work, thought and reflections -- K Biswas * New
Statesman *
[Mouth Full of Blood] proves Morrison to be as astute and
important an essayist as she is a novelist... These pieces are a
wake-up call... [and] a brilliant insight into the mind and work of
one of the world's finest writers -- Anita Sethi * i *
Morrison's fierce yearning for literature to be a more true and
just realm over time, is a gift... [Mouth Full of Blood] is
startling in its relevance to the conflicts and challenges of the
present moment. In a time of turmoil and political greed, her
writings have the power to bring, not a false comfort, but the
hard-won belief that words can reshape the world. Toni Morrison's
own words certainly have -- Nilanjana Roy * Financial Times *
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