Beloved : a novel /

Beloved : a novel /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Morrison, Toni, author.
Edition:	First Vintage International edition.
Imprint:	New York : Vintage International, 2004. ©2004
Description:	xix, 321 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African American women -- Fiction. Enslaved women -- Fiction. Infanticide -- Fiction. African Americans. Infanticide. Women. African Americans Enslaved Persons Infanticide Women Historical fiction. African American women. Infanticide. Enslaved women. Ohio -- Fiction. Ohio. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13193141

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ISBN:	1400033411 9781400033416
Notes:	"With a new foreword by the author"--Cover. "Originally published in a slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1987"--Title page verso. ESL 112+ committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Sethe kills her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured and taken back to Sweet Home, the Kentucky plantation from which Sethe recently fled. A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe's home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Study Program Information:	Reading Counts RC High School 8.1 19 Quiz: 01067 Guided reading level: NR.
Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1988 American Book Award, 1988
Other form:	Online version: Morrison, Toni. Beloved. First Vintage International edition
Standard no.:	9781400033416

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Summary:	PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. <br> <br> This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" ( People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. <br> <br> Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And 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. <br> <br> "A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
Item Description:	"With a new foreword by the author"--Cover. "Originally published in a slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1987"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	xix, 321 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1988 American Book Award, 1988
ISBN:	1400033411 9781400033416