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Jabar's Eclectic Adventure II~~Darleen Lynde
Home of the Diverse!!
BELOVED SOFT COVER BOOK TONI MORRISON PULITZER PRIZE
| Synopsis |
Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later.
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8.3 in. |
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5.3 in. |
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0.8 in. |
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9.6 oz. |
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| Publisher's Note |
"Beloved", the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison is now a major motion picture directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton. Set in the years immediately following the Civil War, "Beloved" tells the story of an escaped slave haunted by the memory of her murdered daughter.
Artwork copyright Touchstone Pictures At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. Woven into this circular, mesmerizing narrative are the horrible truths of Sethe's past: the incredible cruelties she endured as a slave, and the hardships she suffered in her journey north to freedom. Just as Sethe finds the past too painful to remember, and the future just "a matter of keeping the past at bay," her story is almost too painful to read. Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and humor. Part ghost story, part history lesson, part folk tale, Beloved finds beauty in the unbearable, and lets us all see the enduring promise of hope that lies in anyone's future. Coming from Plume in April 1999, Toni Morrison's #1 New York Times bestseller...PARADISE
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"Ms. Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds....'Beloved' is written in an antiminimalist prose that is by turns rich, graceful, eccentric, rough, lyrical, sinuous, colloquial and very much to the point....In this book, the other world exists and magic works, and the prose is up to it. If you can believe page one--and Ms. Morrison's verbal authority compels belief--you're hooked on the rest of the book."
New York Times Book Review - Margaret Atwood (09/13/1987)
"I carried it around like it was the Bible while I was shooting the film and prior to that I had read it twice. Her writing is such that you can't take it all in the first time. You have to spoon-feed it to yourself. I can read Toni Morrison's work over and over again and find something new every time."
New York Times - Oprah Winfrey (12/06/1997)
"BELOVED rewrites the great 19th century American novels, with their imagery of white and black, light and darkness; it attains real tragedy; and it is so well-written and so thoroughly imagined that it leaves the reader feeling triumphant instead of downcast."
Salon - A. S. Byatt (06/21/1999)
Book is in good condition, with minimal wear and some bending to the front cover. |
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