Beloved by Toni Morrison
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers."A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And 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.
"Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." --The New York Times
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She now divides her time between Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. She is the author of five other novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book Critics Award for fiction, Tar Baby and Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781400033416 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400033411 |
| Title | Beloved |
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2004-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1988, Winner of Nobel Prize 1993, Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1988 |
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