Beloved: A Novel (Picador Books) Morrison, Toni Summary This ”brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsSethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. This ”brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsSethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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. “A masterwork…. Wonderful…. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times Highlights Easy to enjoy: 288 pages · Paperback By Morrison, Toni Details ISBN: 9780330305372 Author: Morrison, Toni Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Language: English Publication date: 7 October 1988 Condition: Used – Very Good About the author Morrison, Toni
