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'Language... the measure of our lives'; new book of Toni Morrison quotes out in December

Hillel Italie
Published:   |  08th October 2019 11:03 PM  
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Toni Morrison (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Toni Morrison (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

NEW YORK (AP): A book of Toni Morrison quotations is coming out in December.

The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom will draw from her whole body of work, including celebrated novels such as Beloved and Song of Solomon.

The foreword is by Zadie Smith, adapted from a tribute she wrote soon after the Nobel laureate died in August at age 88.

A publisher's note describes the book as a distillation of her major themes, including "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."

The compact, 128-page compilation was put together by Erroll McDonald, executive editor and vice president of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

He told reporters on Monday that he thought of the book as a response to the "tremendous adulation" that Morrison received after her death.

He intends The Measure of Our Lives to serve as an introduction for new readers and an "ideal keepsake" for longtime admirers.

The book's title comes from one of Morrison's most famous sayings, about words themselves: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."

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