Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. 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.

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Publisher:

Vintage Classics

ISBN:

9780099511656

Publication date:

December 2007

Length:

199mm

Width:

131mm

Thickness:

3mm

Weight:

238g

Pages:

352

Prescribed at:

UNISA 2012

Subject / Course:

ENN315R

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 ofhers 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

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