{"product_id":"the-measure-of-our-lives-a-gathering-of-wisdom","title":"The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt once the ideal introduction to the legendary Nobel Prize winner and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. • With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Zadie Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller.\" —Oprah Winfrey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction—from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard—to tell a story of self-actualization. It aims to evoke the totality of Toni Morrison's literary vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts compelling sequence of flashes of revelation—stunning for their linguistic originality, keenness of psychological observation, and philosophical profundity—addresses issues of abiding interest in Morrison's work: the reach of language for the ineffable; 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 Measure of Our Lives brims with elegance of style and mind and moral authority.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grassrootz Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45814530965677,"sku":"9780525659297","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0280\/9243\/2481\/files\/9780525659297.jpg?v=1773260142","url":"https:\/\/grassrootzbookstore.com\/products\/the-measure-of-our-lives-a-gathering-of-wisdom","provider":"Grassrootz Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}