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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner by Morrison, Toni
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 1400033411
- Book Title
- Beloved : Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Book Series
- Vintage International Ser.
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- African American / General, Literary, Coming of Age, Historical
- Item Weight
- 9.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400033411
ISBN-13
9781400033416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6044908
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beloved : Pulitzer Prize Winner
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
African American / General, Literary, Coming of Age, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-555136
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it." John Leonard, Los Angeles Times "A triumph." Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review "Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." Chicago Sun-Times "Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." The New York Times "A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." Newsweek "Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." San Francisco Chronicle "A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." People "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." New York Review of Books "A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." The Washington Post "There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." The New Yorker "A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." The Baltimore Sun "Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." Cosmopolitan "Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." Milwaukee Journal "Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists." The Plain Dealer "Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." The Christian Science Monitor "Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration." USA Today "Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." The Village Voice "A book worth many rereadings." Glamour "In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Shattering emotional power and impact." New York Daily News "A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph." St. Petersburg Times "Powerful . . . voluptuous." New York From the Trade Paperback edition., "A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it." -John Leonard, Los Angeles Times "A triumph." -Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review "Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." -Chicago Sun-Times "Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." -The New York Times "A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." -Newsweek "Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." -San Francisco Chronicle "A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." -People "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." -New York Review of Books "A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." -The Washington Post "There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." -The New Yorker "A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." -The Baltimore Sun "Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." -Cosmopolitan "Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." -Milwaukee Journal "Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists." -The Plain Dealer "Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." -The Christian Science Monitor "Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration." -USA Today "Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." -The Village Voice "A book worth many rereadings." -Glamour "In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing." -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Shattering emotional power and impact." -New York Daily News "A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph." -St. Petersburg Times "Powerful . . . voluptuous." -New York
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" ( People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. Sethe 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, PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" ( People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. Sethe 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, New York Times Bestseller 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. "You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved , Song of Solomo n, The Bluest Eye , Sula , everything else -- they're transcendent, all of them. You'll be glad you read them."--Barack Obama
LC Classification Number
PS3563
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- 24 Dec, 2021Top favourable review
It's BELOVED by the late Toni Morrison!! It won The Pulitzer Prize. Deservedly!!
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- 03 Sep, 2019
Out of White America's comfort zone
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- 18 Sep, 2023
Once you read the book, you understand the title.
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- 14 Dec, 2021
Richly Told Story In A Bargain-Priced, Almost New Book
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A story that needed to be told!
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