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Beloved - a novel: (a Plume Book)
by Morrison, Toni
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- VeryGood
- ISBN 10
- 0452280621
- ISBN 13
- 9780452280625
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Plume Penguin, 1998. 3rd printing. Trade paperback in glossy color-illus wraps.. VeryGood. Nobel Prize wnning novel, movie tie-in cover. Bright tight clean unread copy.
5-1/4 x 8, 275 pp.
5-1/4 x 8, 275 pp.
Synopsis
Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison. Morrison was inspired to write the story after finding a newspaper article about the legal case of Margaret Garner. Garner escaped slavery in Kentucky to the free State of Ohio when U.S. Marshals captured her. To spare her children from being returned to slavery, she killed her two-year-old daughter and attempted to kill her other children. Morrison's novel is set after the Civil War in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but even after the Civil War, she cannot wrest herself from the terrible legacy of slavery. Living with her 18-year-old daughter Denver, she believes the ghost of her eldest daughter haunts her house. When Paul D, a visitor from Sethe's past life on the plantation, comes to visit, he forces the spirit out of the house and gets Sethe and her daughter Denver to go to a carnival. Upon returning, a strange young woman, who calls herself Beloved, is sitting on the house's stoop. Sethe believes that the woman is the daughter she killed to prevent her from being raised in slavery, and Sethe becomes lost in her fantasy of family and caring for the girl. Beloved illustrates the deeply personal and psychological trauma imposed by society's legal brutalities. Beloved is the fourth novel published by Toni Morrison, and many consider it her finest. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1987. In 1998 a movie starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover was released.
Reviews
On Feb 18 2014, a reader said:
It isn't an easy read. It is often a beautiful read...but beauty and heartbreak are so close together. The lives of the characters have been so difficult, but Toni Morrison tells their stories with incredible depth and empathy. I've only read Beloved once, and I plan to do it again - this is one book that will keep giving on each read.
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Details
- Bookseller
- edburynbooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40250
- Title
- Beloved - a novel
- Author
- Morrison, Toni
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback in glossy color-illus wraps.
- Book Condition
- Used - VeryGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452280621
- ISBN 13
- 9780452280625
- Publisher
- Plume Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
edburynbooks
Biblio member since 2007
Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Movie tie-in
- an edition of a book which is produced in conjunction with a movie which is usually based on the book, often with a cover image...
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