Two pages into anything she writes one feels the power of her language and the emotional authority behind that language. “Toni Morrison is an extraordinarily good writer. it is also extremely funny.” - The Hudson Review So rich in its use of common speech, so sophisticated in its use of literary traditions and language from the Bible to Faulkner. She’s the most sensible lyrical writer around today.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer She has an impeccable sense of emotional detail. “Toni Morrison has created a fanciful world here. “A marvelous novel, the most moving I have read in ten years of reviewing.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer With an ear as sharp as glass she has listened to the music of black talk and uses it as a palette knife to create black lives and to provide some of the best fictional dialogue around today.” - The Nation
She creates a black community strangely unto itself yet never out of touch with the white world. Her writing evokes the joyful richness of life.” - Newsday exceptionally diverse novel.” - The Atlantic Monthly
A delight, full of lyrical variety and allusiveness. She has written a novel that will endure.” - The Washington Post “It places Toni Morrison in the front rank of contemporary American writers. “If Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man went underground, Toni Morrison’s Milkman flies.” -John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review I suspect they will be with me forever.” -Anne Tyler, The Washington Post Intricate and inventive.” - The New Yorker An artistic vision that encompasses both a private and national heritage.” It lifts us up impresses itself upon us like a love affair.” - The New York Times Book Review