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title: "Love: A Novel (Vintage International)"
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# Love: A Novel (Vintage International)

**Brand:** toni morrison
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- **What is this?** Love: A Novel (Vintage International) by toni morrison
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    So delicious 😋
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2024*

This book is like a decadent dessert...read very slowly...over and over again!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Morrison's pregnant  words and sentences
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2005*

I am never disappointed when I pick up a Morrison novel.  Love is a telling novel, one that, at first, is a little hard to get a hold of because Morrison doesn't spell everything out for you.  Her chapters each consist of recursive narration, where we travel backwards in time to get the necessary explanation for the present point in the novel.  With this being said, each chapter is a dynamic story in and of itself, full of life.In Love it is hard to find the love that the title indicates.  This in and of itself is a Morrison trademark.  For certainly Paradise was not a paradise, Beloved was not beloved, and the little black girl in Bluest Eye would never get her blue eyes.  So the irony is in the title.  At first you think it is the love of Mr. Cosey, which is certainly there in a form, but you soon come to realize that Mr. Cosey isn't that nice or good of a character.  In the end it is a tale of Love, although thorned and warped, between two women as we watch how it affects their lives.Read and savor every chapter.  Take in Morrison's ability to form the words in such a melodic fashion that the image is firmly placed in your head.  I adore Morrison's writing and cannot wait for her next novel.  I would most certainly recommend this her latest novel, as well as anything that she has written.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An Amazing But Frustrating  Love Story
  

*by K***I on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017*

I'm in daily appreciation for the themes behind Love, although i’m not too crazy about the actual story. Which shocks me because the more I got to know about the Cosey family,  Junior, and “L ” ,and  began to delve into their individual histories. I wondered how these women could sacrifice their lives in the name of Bill Cosey?A man who was too proud too marry his “whore” although capable of publicly molesting and marrying a child? And yet the women in his life who navigated both his personal and professional  realm, love him no less  and defend him to the end. A question that points back to the title of the novel and most poignantly the danger of love.Where we find beautiful, intelligent, and multi-faceted women loyal to a dangerous self-serving man? Women who can name the ever-ending and deep evils of a man, but don’t feel comfortable calling him such? Although when speaking of “Celestial” influence of men via her sexuality, or Heed’s WANT to be rid of poverty by any mean’s necessary, they are quickly deemed whores or self serving opportunist, never being given the same grace, hesitation or consideration as their god, Bill Cosey.That speaks to a moment in the text where Ms. Morrison states, ” now, exhausted, drifting toward a maybe permanent sleep, they don’t speak of the birth of sin.” A moment that still points the blind eye given to the circumstances crafted by Bill Cosey. A man, who did awful, cruel, unexplainable things to the women who sacrificed their lives for him.Does that not deserve it’s rightful title? One that doesn’t fall back on “a man being a man”?I could go on, but i would continue with more statements that lead to more questions about the women in this story and their inability to authentically love. Women who  didn’t every truly recognize and cherish the love of each other which was really all they had. When instead they rather love the shell of a man dressed in important clothing?The story is frustrating, and the end too soon. Although I’d argue it’s a text geared to confronting women and wondering why their love is not enough? Why they must ignore the strong spiritual ties of their own love that has kept them together despite all their abilities to leave one another. Rather than hold tight to a phantom dream of a man who wasn’t capable of love himself.I’m still torn if I would recommend the book. Although I can’t deny that it move you to a deeper questioning of love and  what  it means to women.

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