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Beloved
Toni Morrison
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Description for Beloved
Paperback. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for 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 haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254
Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.
Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece and best-known work.
‘Dazzling. . . Magical. . . An extraordinary work’ New York Times
‘Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours… Beloved ... Read more
‘An American masterpiece’ A. S. Byatt
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099511656
SKU
9780099511656
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