OL50548W Page-progression lr Pages 298 Ppi 386 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0452280621 Urn:lcp:belovednovel00morr:epub:aebf129d-aa2e-4f91-8073-a7ddfea1c798 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier belovednovel00morr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8sb53d60 Isbn 0394535979ĩ780394535975 Lccn 86046157 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition 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 anyones futureĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:06:08 Boxid IA108324 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y. Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and humor. 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. 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. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. 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.

Born on a distant plantation that she barely remembers, Sethe is the child of an African-born slave. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. Beloved study guide contains a biography of Toni Morrison, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of 'Beloved.' Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen.

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