Recitatif

A Story

Hardcover, 64 pages

Published Feb. 22, 2022 by Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-593-31503-3
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OCLC Number:
1292021288

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Review of 'Recitatif' on 'Goodreads'

4.5 Almost went down to 4.25 because of the extremely spoilery introduction of middling quality that is longer than the short story and the fact that selling a 6000-word story with some light academic commentary as a 14.50 € hardcover is really dubious. But then that's hardly the author's fault.

Read the short story first! Toni Morrison does a really neat experiment that went almost perfectly for me and I think the problem where it breaks down might have something to do that I am not an American reader born in 1960 or so.