Beloved

Toni Morrison

Random House Digital, Inc., Oct 17, 2006 - Fiction - 316 pages

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.

Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

What people are saying

Review: Beloved

User Review  - Kim - Goodreads

Difficult to get through at times, but it was a worthwhile read. As much as I disliked Denver at the start of the book, she became my favorite character by the end. She grew so much as the story progressed.

Review: Beloved

User Review  - Jenna Barley - Goodreads

I first read this book over 20 years ago and I still think it is one of the most beautifully written things I've ever read.

Contents

• Section 1: 9
• Section 2: 29
• Section 3: 38
• Section 4: 55
• Section 5: 62
• Section 6: 70
• Section 7: 78
• Section 8: 89
• Section 9: 102
• Section 10: 125
• Section 11: 134
• Section 12: 138
• Section 13: 146
• Section 14: 155
• Section 15: 157
• Section 16: 172
• Section 17: 179
• Section 18: 185
• Section 19: 195
• Section 20: 231
• Section 21: 237
• Section 22: 243
• Section 23: 249
• Section 24: 252
• Section 25: 257
• Section 26: 265
• Section 27: 273
• Section 28: 303
• Section 29: 315

About the author

Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Beloved; A Borzoi book; Everyman's Library Classics and Contemporary Classics Series; Volume 268 of Everyman's Library
• Author: Toni Morrison
• Contributor: A. S. Byatt
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc., 2006
• ISBN: 0307264882, 9780307264886
• Length: 316 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Literary