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Beloved
  • Published: 1 December 2006
  • ISBN: 9781857152685
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 360
  • RRP: $39.99

Beloved

Formats & editions
Paperback
1 Dec 2010
Paperback
5 Dec 1997
Hardback
20 Dec 2023
EBook
4 Sept 2014
Audiobook
16 May 2006
Paperback
4 Feb 2008
Paperback
1 Apr 1999
Hardback
1 Dec 2006
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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.
With a new introduction by A S Byatt

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 violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.
  • Published: 1 December 2006
  • ISBN: 9781857152685
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 360
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Toni Morrison

TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
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Praise for Beloved

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

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