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Beloved Softcover - 1987
by Morrison
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- Paperback
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- Title Beloved
- Author Morrison
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good Condition
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin, New York.
- Publication date 1987
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1561017507
- ISBN 9780140283402 / 0140283404
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.63 x 0.78 in (21.34 x 14.30 x 1.98 cm)
- Reading level 870
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, African American women
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00709686
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Reader reviews for Beloved
Review summary
Readers largely regard Toni Morrison’s Beloved as a searing, formally adventurous novel that fuses a ghost story with an unflinching account of slavery’s enduring trauma. The prose—poetic, image-rich, and often non-linear—was widely praised, though many admitted the shifting timelines and perspectives can be disorienting before the pieces cohere. The book’s emotional intensity left many drained yet admiring, with several calling it essential reading and noting it rewards patience, rereading, or guided study; Morrison’s own audiobook narration drew special praise. A minority were frustrated by the difficulty or felt detached from the characters, and a few found the ending underwhelming. Overall, the consensus leans toward “important and masterful,” if not conventionally enjoyable.
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hauntinglyricalnon-linearchallengingemotionally drainingpowerfuldevastatingconfusing at firstrewardingimportantWrite a review for this book
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First line
124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom.
