Beloved

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Toni Morrison

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. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.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

Coming Of Age

Historical Fiction

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Author

Toni Morrison

Pages

352

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published Date

2007-07-24

ISBN

030738862X 9780307388629

Ratings

Google: 3

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"This story was so painful and heartbreaking! It deals with slavery, making difficult choices, and being haunted by those choices. "

Sandy Lopez

"#african_american #literary #general #coming_of_age 😌 "

"Wow! This fits so many genres and so perfectly explored so many themes, it’s just a masterpiece."

CaitVD

"🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 I read this for school and was not expecting to like it as much as I did. It takes a minute to get used to Toni Morrison’s writing style and how she jumps from time to time. This is a good read (obvi) but a hard one at times just because of what it is about. Don’t be scared to take breaks or google things is the best advice I could give you. "

Abby

"It has been nearly a decade since reading this book- yet some of the quotes still linger in my brain today. If that's not a stellar recommendation, I'm not sure what is. "

Alexia Hollis

"so. good. a literary classic for a reason, this book explores slavery, ghosts, and womanhood unflinchingly. haunting, yet beautiful. "

Kayley R.

"I ended up DNF'ing it, I couldn't get into it and continued to find my mind wondering elsewhere. While I do enjoy reading a little bit of everything, maybe this just wasn't for me."

Ann D

"I majored in English and minored in Spanish. One of the courses I took for my major was Women Writers. We were divided into groups and each assigned a novel to read and present. The one for my group was Beloved. We settled on assignments within the group, and mine was 'images'. Simple, right? I tried, lol. But I kept encroaching on someone else's assignment of themes. My list became a complicated mess. But I loved reading the book. Beautiful. "