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Into Toni Morrison's 'Home'

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She is a literary icon, an outspoken writer and a Nobel Prize winner. At 81, Toni Morrison is one of America’s greatest authors. Her latest novel "Home" examines her country’s segregationist past. Eve Jackson speaks to the literary grande dame.

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