Beloved
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- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2006
Summary
The novel powerfully portrays the meanings of what it means to be owned by another and the difficulty of owning oneself. Mythic in scope, Beloved is an attempt to grapple with the legacy of slavery.
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152685 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152689 |
| Author: | Toni Morrison, A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 135mm x 211mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Critics Review
Toni Morrison’s writing is a train that knows where it’s going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description
She’s a masterful craftsperson, which people tend to overlook. She is as great and as innovative as Faulkner and Garcia Marquez and Woolf. * New York Times *
Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose…She has the ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the hallmark of a genuine writer * The Guardian *
Toni Morrison’s writing is a train that knows where it’s going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description * Sunday Times *
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (Author)
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, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
A S Byatt (Introducer)
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
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