Toni Morrison - Tar Baby

— The Kansas City Star

“It takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships.”

— Vogue

“Wise, beautiful, astonishing, absolutely breathtaking.”

— St. Louis Globe-Democrat

“Reminds us again that Toni Morrison is one of the finest writers in America today.”

— Louisville Courier-Journal

“ Tar Baby is stupendous. Morrison is a writer of amazing skill.”

— The Roanoke Times & World

“Its scope is grand and the interplay complex. But Morrison has the control of a skilled choreographer, with a careful eye pinned on pacing, suspense, grace, and frenzy…. She has an awesome lyric flair.”

— The Charlotte Observer

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JUNE 2004

Copyright © 1981, 2004 by Toni Morrison

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1981.

Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Morrison, Toni.

Tar baby.

I. Title.

PS3563.08749 T37 1981

813'-5'4

80-22821

www.vintagebooks.com

eISBN: 978-0-307-38815-5

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