Beloved
Toni Morrison
(Author)
Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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. "A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
Product Details
Price
$32.00
$29.76
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Publish Date
October 22, 2019
Pages
288
Dimensions
6.1 X 9.4 X 1.3 inches | 1.34 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780525659273
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About the Author
TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
Reviews
"A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times "A triumph." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review "Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." --Chicago Sun-Times "Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." --The New York Times "A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." --Newsweek "Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." --San Francisco Chronicle "A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." --People "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." --New York Review of Books "A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." --The Washington Post "There is something great in Beloved a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." --The New Yorker "A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." --The Baltimore Sun "Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." --Cosmopolitan "Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." --Milwaukee Journal "Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists." --The Plain Dealer "Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." --The Christian Science Monitor "Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration." --USA Today "Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." --The Village Voice "A book worth many rereadings." --Glamour "In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Shattering emotional power and impact." --New York Daily News "A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph." --St. Petersburg Times "Powerful . . . voluptuous." --New York
