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Book Review of Tar Baby

Tar Baby
Tar Baby
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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In 1981's Tar Baby, Morrison deals with a different set of cruelties. The six major characters are her most diverse, and the conflicts are both realistic and symbolic, embodying the opposition of wealth and poverty, youth and age, male and female, black and white, in a microcosm of society found on a Caribbean island.