A mercy / Toni Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American girls--Fiction.

African American girls.

Interracial adoption.

Interracial adoption--Fiction.

Racism--Fiction.

Racism.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 167 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Summary:

In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.

Notes:

This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Canada.

Designed by Virginia Tan.

Map courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.

Jacket illustration: Morning in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin Church, 1877 (detail) ... Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has newspaper article on Toni Morrison, Book World book review, an article on teaching Toni Morrison and [1] page of discussion questions laid in.

ISBN:

9780307264237

0307264238

OCLC:

212855125