Beloved: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at "beating back the past," but it is alive in all of them. It keeps Denver fearful of straying from the house. It fuels the sadness
Quick facts about Beloved
- Title: Beloved
- Author: Toni Morrison
- First published: 1987
- Genre: african american history, ohio, history
- OpenLibrary ID: OL50548W
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Beloved by Toni Morrison is widely available in print, ebook and audiobook editions from major retailers and libraries.
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Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of
Who wrote Beloved?
Beloved was written by Toni Morrison.
When was Beloved published?
Beloved was first published in 1987.
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