| Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner Contributor(s): Morrison, Toni (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400033411 ISBN-13: 9781400033416 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved" is a towering achievement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004555136 |
| Lexile Measure: 870 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 8652 Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding New York Times bestseller transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. |