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Beloved

Author: Toni Morrison   Series: Vintage Classics

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'Dazzling. . . Magical. . . An extraordinary work' New York Times

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

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'Dazzling. . . Magical. . . An extraordinary work' New York Times

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

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Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe s new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word- Beloved.

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Awards

Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988 (United States)

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Critic Reviews

This is a wonderful novel about slavery, freedom, parental loss and revenants The Week, Thomas Keneally Superb. . .A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . .Exquisitely told Cosmopolitan There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you The New Yorker A work of genuine force. . .Beautifully written Washington Post Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature New York Review of Books She melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever Sunday Times A triumph -- Margaret Atwood New York Times Book Review A magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece -- A.S. Byatt Guardian '[Toni Morrison's] irreverence was godly' Guardian 'Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the twentieth century' 'Her legacy is total excellence . . . she is magnificent, her emotional intelligence is second to none and her bravery was equal to her artistry' 'I have never read anyone else like her . . . She was an opener of doors, doors that seemed they might always be shut, doors shut so tight they seemed not to be doors at all' 'Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together' 'Morrison's legacy in commemorating slavery's survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come' 'Morrison is, to me, the best writer the English-speaking world has ever seen' 'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' 'No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart' '[Toni Morrison] led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty of the language, and the power that was unleashed when that beauty was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mind' 'I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. I believed her' 'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all'

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About the Author

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'A magnificent achievement... An American masterpiece' A. S. Byatt, Guardian Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. 'A triumph' Margaret Atwood, New York Times Review of Books See also: Disgrace Reading Guide Edition

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage Classics
Published
6th December 2007
Pages
352
ISBN
9780099511656

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