{"product_id":"the-measure-of-our-lives-isbn-9780525659297","title":"The Measure of Our Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eAt once the ideal introduction to the legendary Nobel Prize winner and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. • With a foreword by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Zadie Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller.\" —Oprah Winfrey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction—from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child,\u003c\/i\u003e from \u003ci\u003ePlaying in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Source of Self-Regard—\u003c\/i\u003eto tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIts compelling sequence of flashes of revelation—stunning for their linguistic originality, keenness of psychological observation, and philosophical profundity—addresses issues of abiding interest in Morrison's work: the reach of language for the ineffable; transcendence through imagination; the self and its discontents; the vicissitudes of love; the whirligig of memory; the singular power of women; the original American sin of slavery; the bankruptcy of racial oppression; the complex humanity and art of black people. \u003ci\u003eThe Measure of Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e brims with elegance of style and mind and moral authority.\"The work of Toni Morrison is filled with glorious moments: sentences that can take your breath away and truisms that are so deep and so profound that reading her often feels like an exercise in spirituality. Upon the passing of this monumental writer comes this most exceptional collection of some of those most beautiful moments.... Prepare to be awed as you experience the magic of Toni Morrison in this brilliant remembrance of her.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels, from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1970) to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZADIE SMITH is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Autograph Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia\u003c\/i\u003e, three collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFeel Free\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIntimations\u003c\/i\u003e, and a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eGrand Union\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Other People\u003c\/i\u003e. Smith was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.Foreword by Zadie Smith","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302527946981,"sku":"NP9780525659297","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780525659297.jpg?v=1767740456","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-measure-of-our-lives-isbn-9780525659297","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}