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  • Published: 1 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099555940
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99

The Giant on the Skyline

On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go




Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.

An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his shattered sense of self, he unearths the courage he thought he'd lost forever. It is with incantatory power that Morrison's language reveals an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and, finally, his home.

'No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

  • Published: 1 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099555940
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Clover Stroud

Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist writing for the Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Conde Nast Traveller among others. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and five children. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize.

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Praise for The Giant on the Skyline

Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.

New York Review of Books

Morrison excels at presenting a raw and moving portrait of fractured masculinity

Independent

Spare and visual…a writer of consummate.

Times

Pulsing with imaginative energy, it displays Morrison’s veteran ability to combine physical and social immediacy with psychological and emotional subtlety. A fine addition to Morrison’s expansive chronicling of black American history, Home is a compact triumph.

Sunday Times

A highly fractured tale intended to resemble the crumbling nature of Money’s existence post war. Nothing is over-laboured. Each word resounds with sultry, heat-oppressive Georgia.

Spectator

Powerful, sparse prose

Vogue

Morrison's writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page

Sunday Telegraph

Compelling...brief but intense...Morrison writes with her usual lyricism

Literary Review

I read Toni Morrison's Home in one sitting and was moved to tears. It's a novella only in length: the deceptively straightforward narrative contains worlds

Scotsman

It is beautifully, sparely written, as with all Morrison's work, and lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned

Sunday Express

Toni Morrison still has the power to shock and deliver hope

Good Housekeeping

Pulsing with imaginative energy… Home is a compact triumph

Sunday Times

Beautifully, sparely written…lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned

Sunday Express

Morrison’s writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page

Sunday Telegraph

Toni Morrison still has the power to shock and deliver hope

Good Housekeeping

Each word resounds with sultry, heat-oppressive Georgia

Spectator

Home is a powerful reminder of the impact the past plays on the present

The Times

Morrison can say more in one word than most novelists manage in an entire book. Superb

Glasgow Sunday Herald

Bursting with poetic language and horrific events this is a penetrating insight to the African-American experience

The Lady

It is a powerful set-up, building suspense and a mounting sense of anxiety

Guardian

Toni Morrison’s mesmerising prose manages to be both elegiac and visceral at the same time

Mail on Sunday

A triumph

Sunday Times

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Guardian

A heartbreaking account of lost innocence and fractured dreams... Haunting

New York Times