The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525521037)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines" (NPR).

These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, "black matter(s)," human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others.

An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.

Author: Toni Morrison
ISBN-10: 0525521038
ISBN-13: 9780525521037
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2019
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2018 pg. 41
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2018 pg. 138
Publishers Weekly 12/03/2018
Library Journal 01/01/0001 pg. 76
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 31