# The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom - Hardcover

by **Toni Morrison** (Author), **Zadie Smith** (Foreword by)

**At 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.**

"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller." --Oprah Winfrey

This 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.

Its 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.

### Author Biography

TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels, from _The Bluest Eye_ (1970) to _God Help the Child_ (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

ZADIE SMITH is the author of the novels _White Teeth_, _The Autograph Man_, _On Beauty_, _NW_ and _Swing Time_, as well as a novella, _The Embassy of Cambodia_, and two collections of essays, _Changing My Mind_ and _Feel Free_. She is also the editor of _The Book of Other People_. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. _White Teeth_ won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. _On Beauty_ was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and _NW_ was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

**Number of Pages:** 144

**Dimensions:** 1 x 6.6 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** December 03, 2019

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