Beloved: Toni Morrison (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Beloved: Toni Morrison (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

by A S Byatt (Introduction), A S Byatt (Introduction), Toni Morrison (Author), A S Byatt (Introduction)

Synopsis

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter, Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Edition: 1
Publisher: Everyman
Published: 07 Sep 2006

ISBN 10: 1857152689
ISBN 13: 9781857152685
Book Overview: The novel powerfully portrays the meanings of what it means to be owned by another and the difficulty of owning oneself. Mythic in scope, Beloved is an attempt to grapple with the legacy of slavery. With a new introduction by A S Byatt

Media Reviews
She's a masterful craftsperson, which people tend to overlook. She is as great and as innovative as Faulkner and Garcia Marquez and Woolf. * New York Times *
Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose...She has the ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the hallmark of a genuine writer * The Guardian *
Toni Morrison's writing is a train that knows where it's going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description * Sunday Times *
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.