Beloved / Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by A. S. Byatt.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe's house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe's terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison's unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307264886
- ISBN: 0307264882
- Physical Description: xxxi, 316 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: Everyman's Library edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2006.
- Copyright: ©2004
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso."Originally published in a slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., 1987. Introduction ©2006 by A. S. Byatt. Bibliography and chronology ©2006 by Everyman's Library."--Title page verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii).
- Target Audience Note:
- 870L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 6 15 8652.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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