A Mercy Toni Morrison, Alfred A. Knopf, 167 pp., $23.95 To the collective American mind, pre-Revolutionary America is a sparsely populated expanse of raw, green land, shrouded in thick mist, primitive belief and barely concealed savagery. All that’s needed to both subvert and sharpen this superficial presumption is the necessary complexity of human behavior. Here …
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