Tessa Roynon Knihy

Offers readers a guide to Toni Morrison and her fiction, from her status on the global intellectual stage to her engagement with the African-American experience. Lively and accessibly written, this text is ideal for readers approaching Morrison for the first time as well as those already familiar with her work.

This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.