Beloved by Toni Morrison

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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