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Beloved

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ISBN13: 9780452280625
ISBN10: 0452280621
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At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. Woven into this circular, mesmerizing narrative are the horrible truths of Sethe's past: the incredible cruelties she endured as a slave, and the hardships she suffered in her journey north to freedom. Just as Sethe finds the past too painful to remember, and the future just "a matter of keeping the past at bay," her story is almost too painful to read. Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and humor. Part ghost story, part history lesson, part folk tale, Beloved finds beauty in the unbearable, and lets us all see the enduring promise of hope that lies in anyone's future.

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"An extraordinary novel." The New York Times

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"Another triumph.... Ms. Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds... If you can believe page one — and Ms. Morrison's verbal authority compels belief — you're hooked on the rest of the book." Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review
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Toni Morrison was born in Ohio and is a graduate of Howard University and Cornell University. She has worked in publishing and taught at various colleges and universities, including Yale, Rutgers, and SUNY Albany as the Schweitzer Chair. She is currently Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton. She was the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Stephanie Y., March 8, 2009 (view all comments by Stephanie Y.)
This book was great. It gives a narrative of life during and after enslavement and speaks beautifully about the strain on relationships and basic human dignity.
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ISBN:
9780452280625
Author:
Morrison, Toni
Publisher:
Plume
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Ohio
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Women slaves
Subject:
African Americans
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Infanticide
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Subject:
African-American women
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
1987
Series Volume:
6240
Publication Date:
1998
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
512
Dimensions:
8.08x5.40x.60 in. .55 lbs.
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