Recitatif

Resource Information

The work Recitatif represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Recitatif

Statement of responsibility

Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Zadie Smith

Creator

• Morrison, Toni

Contributor

• Smith, Zadie

Author

• Morrison, Toni

Writer of introduction

• Smith, Zadie

Subject

• Flatmates -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Interracial friendship -- Fiction
• Large print books
• United States -- Race relations -- Fiction
• White people -- Race identity -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Race identity -- Fiction
• Female friendship -- Fiction

Genre

• Large print books
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as flatmates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them

Cataloging source

VMOR

Index

no index present

Literary form

short stories

Target audience

adult