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    Toni Morrison

    Love (Knopf) Nobel laureate Toni Morrison shows how the careful arrangement of specific detail in her newest fiction, Love, forces the reader to participate in its structure.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Feb 12, 2004 • 30m Listen

    Nobel laureate

    Toni Morrison shows how the careful arrangement of specific detail in her newest fiction,

    Love (Knopf)

    , forces the reader to participate in its structure. As the novel's complexity comes into focus, romantic love surrenders and declines, and we see different kinds of love wrestle for dominance.

    Read an excerpt from Love.

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      Michael Silverblatt

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