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20%OFFToni Morrison - Beloved - 9780099273936 - 9780099273936
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Beloved

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Description for Beloved Paperback. A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, 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.

**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099273936
SKU
9780099273936
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni ... Read more

Reviews for Beloved
'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all' ‘I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. I believed her’ ‘[Toni Morrison] led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty of the language, ... Read more

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