The Giant on the Skyline
On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go
- Published: 3 May 2012
- ISBN: 9781448138616
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
Home is a powerful reminder of the impact the past plays on the present
The Times
A heartbreaking account of lost innocence and fractured dreams... Haunting
New York 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
A triumph
Sunday Times
Beautifully, sparely written…lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned
Sunday Express
Bursting with poetic language and horrific events this is a penetrating insight to the African-American experience
The Lady
Compelling...brief but intense...Morrison writes with her usual lyricism
Literary Review
Each word resounds with sultry, heat-oppressive Georgia
Spectator
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 a powerful set-up, building suspense and a mounting sense of anxiety
Guardian
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
Morrison can say more in one word than most novelists manage in an entire book. Superb
Glasgow Sunday Herald
Morrison excels at presenting a raw and moving portrait of fractured masculinity
Independent
Morrison’s writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page
Sunday Telegraph
Morrison's writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page
Sunday Telegraph
Powerful, sparse prose
Vogue
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
Pulsing with imaginative energy… Home is a compact triumph
Sunday Times
Spare and visual…a writer of consummate.
Times
Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.
New York Review of Books
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
Toni Morrison still has the power to shock and deliver hope
Good Housekeeping
Toni Morrison still has the power to shock and deliver hope
Good Housekeeping
Toni Morrison’s mesmerising prose manages to be both elegiac and visceral at the same time
Mail on Sunday