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July 2013 Guest Editor Cath Staincliffe on Beloved...
Probably the most powerful book I’ve ever read. Morrison gives us a searing indictment of slavery and racism in a beautifully written and harrowing story about a woman and her children haunted by a child ghost in the aftermath of the American civil war. This was one of those novels that made me desperate to try to write myself.
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Synopsis
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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.
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[Beloved] has left the realm of fiction and become a force of nature Guardian A magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece -- A.S. Byatt Guardian A triumph -- Margaret Atwood New York Times Book Review She melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever Sunday Times 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 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 Superb...A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history...Exquisitely told Cosmopolitan This is a wonderful novel about slavery, freedom, parental loss and revenants The Week, Thomas KeneallyAbout the Author
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6th December 2007Author
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Vintage Classics an imprint of CCVFormat
Paperback352 pages
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)ISBN
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