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Beloved

(Everyman's Library) (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

By Toni Morrison

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| Hardcover | 9780307264886

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yContinue

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.

Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

Critics

  • 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

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  • 1 person find this helpful

    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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • *** This comment contains spoilers! ***

    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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • 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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • My tears flood my room.

    The storyline was rather interesting. Although, apart from its reputation as a memorable story, I found it too depressing for my likings. I realize the fact that the book is all about slavery, death, and rather sad topics, I think the author could have thrown in humor, a few rainbows here and there. ... (continue)

    The storyline was rather interesting. Although, apart from its reputation as a memorable story, I found it too depressing for my likings. I realize the fact that the book is all about slavery, death, and rather sad topics, I think the author could have thrown in humor, a few rainbows here and there. But who am I to tell her how to write. She's an widely acclaimed author and I'm a high school student. Oh well.

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    David Nelson said on Dec 25, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Well I am glad that I read this and enjoyed it as much as one can when reading about such a subject. It is not an easy read due to the subject and the author's writing style.

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    Lindyloumac said on Sep 4, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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