Perhaps the most incredible and unlikely fact about Toni Morrison, one of the most important and insightful writers in the world, English-speaking or otherwise, is that she has published fewer than a dozen novels during the course of her career. Her power partly lies in this precision, the distillation of an idea from mind to page, a skill reflected in the titles of her work: Beloved, Jazz, Paradise, A Mercy; God Help the Child, her 11th and latest novel, has the longest title by far. The only living American Nobel Prize-winner for literature, an honour bestowed more than 20 years ago, her life's work totals little more than 2,500 pages "“ a couple of fat Stephen King paperbacks "“ yet hers is a career that's impossible to measure and one that few will match.
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