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Beloved : Pulitzer Prize Winner by Toni Morrison (2004, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400033411

ISBN-139781400033416

eBay Product ID (ePID)6044908

Product Key Features

Book TitleBeloved : Pulitzer Prize Winner

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicAfrican American / General, Literary, Coming of Age, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorToni Morrison

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10 oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-555136

Reviews"A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it." John Leonard, Los Angeles Times "A triumph." Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review "Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." Chicago Sun-Times "Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." The New York Times "A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." Newsweek "Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." San Francisco Chronicle "A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." People "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." New York Review of Books "A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." The Washington Post "There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." The New Yorker "A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." The Baltimore Sun "Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." Cosmopolitan "Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." Milwaukee Journal "Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists." The Plain Dealer "Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." The Christian Science Monitor "Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration." USA Today "Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." The Village Voice "A book worth many rereadings." Glamour "In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Shattering emotional power and impact." New York Daily News "A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph." St. Petersburg Times "Powerful . . . voluptuous." New York From the Trade Paperback edition., "A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it." -John Leonard, Los Angeles Times "A triumph." -Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review "Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." -Chicago Sun-Times "Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." -The New York Times "A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." -Newsweek "Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." -San Francisco Chronicle "A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." -People "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." -New York Review of Books "A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." -The Washington Post "There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." -The New Yorker "A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." -The Baltimore Sun "Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." -Cosmopolitan "Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." -Milwaukee Journal "Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists." -The Plain Dealer "Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." -The Christian Science Monitor "Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration." -USA Today "Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." -The Village Voice "A book worth many rereadings." -Glamour "In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Shattering emotional power and impact." -New York Daily News "A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph." -St. Petersburg Times "Powerful . . . voluptuous." -New York

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "powerful, mesmerizing story" ( People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author. "A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times 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. "Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." --The New York Times, 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, New York Times Bestseller 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. "You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved , Song of Solomo n, The Bluest Eye , Sula , everything else -- they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them."--Barack Obama

LC Classification NumberPS3563