Beloved

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• Understanding slavery

  Toni Morrison’s novels have been constructed, and are magically unsettled, by the unique character of historical memory for black Americans. That is to say, she has wanted to account for black experience that has been ignored or quite inadequately na ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

• Ghost Story

  A novel like Toni Morrison’s Beloved makes the reviewer’s usual strategies of praise and grumbling seem shallow. I find it hard not to dwell on passages like this description of a fugitive slave trying to get out of the Old South, where what is seen ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

9 Reviews

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  In the chapter where the mother kills her child in order not to leave it to the white master, I fell breathless and had to read it over and over again to see if I caught the meaning! Morrison is really powerful and this is a masterpiece novel.

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  Eagereader said on Jul 30, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Not that the book isn't well written, it's just that I'm not really interested in this kind of literature. I picked up the book because Morrison won a Nobel Prize; that's all.

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  kangjiamei169 said on Feb 28, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  One of those books that seeps in.

  You can cut free from salvery, but it will not leave you, so the only thing a former-slave mother thinks she can do to prevent her children from suffering from it is ... is too much. BUT, one of her surviving children manages to find a different way out.

  And it's all told in Toni Morrison's poeti ... (continue)

  You can cut free from salvery, but it will not leave you, so the only thing a former-slave mother thinks she can do to prevent her children from suffering from it is ... is too much. BUT, one of her surviving children manages to find a different way out.

  And it's all told in Toni Morrison's poetic and at times visionary style.

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  fran_ces said on Dec 1, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Giver of this book on World Book Night

  I felt as this was the book I had to give out, I should at least read it. It took self discaplin to finsih, not very enjoyable, and the second half was better than the first.

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  The commuting Bookworm said on Mar 7, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Great novel, powerful and symbolic writing. I love it!!

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  Prudence...alter Duddola said on Feb 18, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  After re-reading three times the first two pages, because I simply couldn't understand them, and after painfully arriving at page ten, I decided to let go and try something more mean to be read.

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  Yggdrasil said on Sep 17, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 288 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0099760118
• ISBN-13: 9780099760115
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Pub date: Aug 21, 1997
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Unbound and Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Livres Français, Libros en Español

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