NP - Toni Morrison on love, loss and modernity

[alice wellintown]

Do you imagine that Updike would get any better for a Morrison fan who
read Rabbit and wondered why anyone would give Updike prizes?

Updike did slip on a little magic realism or whatever it is Morrison
does...in his novel, Brazil...so the Morrison fan might think that
effort better, though critics and Updike fans wonder why Updike tried
to write a novel about people he has no knowledge of in a style he has
no skill with...

so Beloved, Morrisons best novel,  is worth the effort, but there are
elements of it that will turn you away if you are looking for Updike
or even Faulkner.

Black fiction is not for everyone. Morrison is a black novelist, more
so than any other major...Baldwin...maybe Walker, not Updike...so for
those who want white suburban protestant waspy stuff...Morrison dont
get no better...sorry