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Barcode30293101905920
LocationClark County
Call NoF Morr
TitleBeloved / a novel by Toni Morrison.
AuthorMorrison, Toni. author.
CollectionF
Total Circ20
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293101905920F Morr9/28/2017 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780525659273
International Standard Book Number 0525659277
Personal Name Morrison, Toni. author.
Title Statement Beloved / a novel by Toni Morrison.
Edition Statement Special edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Physical Description 275 pages ; 25 cm.
General Note Originally published: 1987.
Summary, Etc. After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. Woven into this circular, mesmerizing narrative are the horrible truths of Sethe's past: the incredible cruelties she endured as a slave, and the hardships she suffered in her journey north to freedom. Just as Sethe finds the past too painful to remember, and the future just "a matter of keeping the past at bay," her story is almost too painful to read. Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and humor. Part ghost story, part history lesson, part folk tale, Beloved finds beauty in the unbearable, and lets us all see the enduring promise of hope that lies in anyones future.
Awards Note Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1988.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women slaves Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Infanticide Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Ohio Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.

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