Beloved (Vintage Classics)

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Paperback
2010
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INCLUDES A READING GUIDE 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.

Synopsis

INCLUDES A READING GUIDE 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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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 07 Oct 2010
ISBN 10: 0099540975
ISBN 13: 9780099540977
Book Overview: A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish.

Media Reviews

[Beloved] has left the realm of fiction and become a force of nature * Guardian *
A magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece -- A.S. Byatt * Guardian *
A triumph -- Margaret Atwood * New York Times Book Review *
She melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever * Sunday Times *
Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature * New York Review of Books *

Author Bio

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in 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.