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Beloved / a novel a novel by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author].

Morrison, Toni, (author.).

Summary:

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0394535979
  • ISBN: 037540273X
  • ISBN: 9780452280625
  • ISBN: 0452280621
  • ISBN: 0701130601
  • ISBN: 0452280621
  • ISBN: 0452261368
  • ISBN: 0525659277
  • ISBN: 9780525659273
  • ISBN: 0756940559
  • ISBN: 1400033411
  • ISBN: 1439559791
  • ISBN: 9780756940553
  • ISBN: 9781400033416
  • ISBN: 9781439559796
  • Physical Description: xix, 321 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Vintage International edition
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 2004.

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General Note:
"Originally published in a slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1987"--Title page verso.
Target Audience Note:
870L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6 15 8652.
Language Note:
ESL 112+
Awards Note:
American Book Award, 1988
Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1988

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Subject:
African American women > Fiction.
Enslaved women > Fiction.
Infanticide > Fiction.
Ohio > Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.

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