The Resource Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
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- Summary
- After Paul D. 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. 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. A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story- read it and tremble. 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. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. 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. 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. Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and humor. 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 future
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394535975
- Label
- Beloved
- Title
- Beloved
- Statement of responsibility
- a novel by Toni Morrison
- Subject
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- trueOhio -- History -- 19th century
- African American women
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Fiction
- Afro-Americans -- Ohio -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueChildren -- Death | Psychological aspects
- trueCoping in women
- Fiction
- trueFreed people
- trueFreed slaves
- trueFreedom seekers
- Fugitive slaves
- Historical fiction
- History
- Infanticide
- Infanticide -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters
- Ohio
- Ohio -- Fiction
- trueSlavery
- Women slaves
- Women slaves -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- After Paul D. 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. 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. A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story- read it and tremble. 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. The woman is Sethe, and the novel traces her journey from slavery to freedom during and immediately following the Civil War. 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. 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. Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and humor. 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 future
- Award
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- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1988.
- Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 1988.
- Awards note
- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1988.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 046250
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1931-2019
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Morrison, Toni
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American women
- Women slaves
- Infanticide
- African American women
- Infanticide
- Women slaves
- Ohio
- Ohio
- Label
- Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 145654
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394535975
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 86046157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780394535975
- (OCoLC)15284982
- Label
- Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 145654
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394535975
- Isbn Type
- (hc.)
- Lccn
- 86046157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780394535975
- (OCoLC)15284982
Subject
- trueOhio -- History -- 19th century
- African American women
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Fiction
- Afro-Americans -- Ohio -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueChildren -- Death | Psychological aspects
- trueCoping in women
- Fiction
- trueFreed people
- trueFreed slaves
- trueFreedom seekers
- Fugitive slaves
- Historical fiction
- History
- Infanticide
- Infanticide -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters
- Ohio
- Ohio -- Fiction
- trueSlavery
- Women slaves
- Women slaves -- Fiction
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