Beloved: A Novel by Toni Morrison (English) Paperback Book

Description: Beloved by Toni Morrison It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.Discover Toni Morrisons most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.An American masterpiece AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrisons enduring masterpiece.Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours..."Beloved," is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all Margaret Atwood, New York TimesThe literary titan we must never stop learning from MetroWinner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Notes Backlist reissue, new to the Vintage imprint. Author Biography Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Americas highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight. Review "[Beloved] has left the realm of fiction and become a force of nature" Guardian "A triumph" -- Margaret Atwood New York Times Book Review "A magnificent achievement... An American masterpiece" -- A. S. Byatt Guardian "There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you" New Yorker "Toni Morrison has created a frightening, beautiful and intensely exciting novel about America and its past. I am not able to think of a better one" London Review of Books "A work of genuine force... Beautifully written" Washington Post "Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics dont seem to come close to explaining her" Guardian Promotional Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Kirkus UK Review This is Morrisons masterwork for which she was awarded the Pulitzer and, subsequently, the Nobel Prize. It is an unflinchingly tough and heart-wrenching novel, examining the ghosts of slavery in the lives of black American women. Sethe has killed her own daughter, Beloved, with a saw rather than return her to the plantations. Some years later, in the summer of 1873, a troubled and oddly familiar young woman appears in Sethes life. Has the past caught up with her at last? Beloved is a novel of great lyrical beauty and emotional intensity. Review by Jim Crace, whose books include Being Dead (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review Morrisons truly majestic fifth novel - strong and intricate in craft; devastating in impact. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this is the story of how former slaves, psychically crippled by years of outrage to their bodies and their humanity, attempt to "beat hack the past," while the ghosts and wounds of that past ravage the present. The Ohio house where Sethe and her second daughter, ten-year-old Denver, live in 1873 is "spiteful. Full of a [dead] babys venom." Sethes mother-in-law, a good woman who preached freedom to slave minds, has died grieving. It was she who nursed Sethe, the runaway - near death with a newborn - and gave her a brief spell of contentment when Sethe was reunited with her two boys and first baby daughter. But the boys have by now run off, scared, and the murdered first daughter "has palsied the house" with rage. Then to the possessed house comes Paul D., one of the "Pauls" who, along with Sethe, had been a slave on the "Sweet Home" plantation under two owners - one "enlightened," one vicious. (But was there much difference between them?) Sethe will honor Paul D.s humiliated manhood; Paul D. will banish Sethes ghost, and hear her stories from the past. But the one story she does not tell him will later drive him away - as it drove away her boys, and as it drove away the neighbors. Before he leaves, Paul D. will be baffled and anxious about Sethes devotion to the strange, scattered and beautiful lost girl, "Beloved." Then, isolated and alone together for years, the three women will cling to one another as mother, daughter, and sister - found at last and redeemed. Finally, the ex-slave community, rebuilding on ashes, will intervene, and Beloveds tortured vision of a mothers love - refracted through a short nightmare life - will end with her death. Morrison traces the shifting shapes of suffering and mythic accommodations, through the shell of psychosis to the core of a victims dark violence, with a lyrical insistence and a clear sense of the time when a beleaguered peoples "only grace. . .was the grace they could imagine." (Kirkus Reviews) Prizes Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988 (United States) Review Text Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all Promotional "Headline" Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Details ISBN0099760118 Author Toni Morrison Year 1997 ISBN-10 0099760118 ISBN-13 9780099760115 Format Paperback Publication Date 1997-08-21 Subtitle A Novel Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Pages 352 Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage Language English UK Release Date 1997-08-21 AU Release Date 1997-08-21 NZ Release Date 1997-08-21 Translator Polly McLean Birth 1930 Affiliation Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications QC Audience General Alternative 9780099273936 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:2190051;

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