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| Author(s) | Toni Morrison |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Publication date | 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 208 pp (Hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0375409448 (Hardcover edition) |
| OCLC Number | 52039575 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 21 |
| LC Classification | PS3563.O8749 L68 2003 |
Love (2003) is the eighth novel by Toni Morrison. In her non-linear style, the lives of several women and their relationships to the late Bill Cosey unfold.
Love is the story of Bill Cosey, a charismatic but dead hotel owner. Or rather, it is about the people around him, all affected by his life — even long after his death. The main characters are Christine, his granddaughter and Heed, his widow. The two are the same age and used to be friends but some forty years after Cosey's death they are sworn enemies, and yet share his mansion. Again Morrison used split narrative and jumps back and forth throughout the story, not fully unfolding until the very end. The characters in the novel all have some relation to the infamous Bill Cosey.
Similar to the concept of communication between the living and the dead in Beloved, Morrison introduced a character named Junior; she was the medium to connect the dead Bill Cosey to the world of the living.
The storytelling techniques in Love, namely the split narrative, suggest a recent trend in Morrison's literature that divides the plot among different time periods.
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THEMES: - Love (in different forms)