Bibliograph

Beloved, [a novel], Toni Morrison ; introduction by A.S. Byatt

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Beloved, [a novel], Toni Morrison ; introduction by A.S. Byatt

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Beloved

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Oclc number

76903990

Responsibility statement

Toni Morrison ; introduction by A.S. Byatt

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Books on Tape books on CD

Sub title

[a novel]

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. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before

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