Beloved : a novel / by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author].
By: Morrison, Toni.
New York : Vintage International, 2004Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.Description: xix, 321 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781400033416 (pbk.).Subject(s): African American women -- Fiction | Women slaves -- Fiction | Infanticide -- Fiction | Ohio -- FictionGenre/Form: Print books.Review: "Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this 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."--BOOK JACKET.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PS3563.O8749 B4 2004 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007904 |
Total holds: 0
"Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this 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."--BOOK JACKET.