Beloved (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

ISBN: 0525659277

Author: Morrison, Toni

Condition: New

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.This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsSethe 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 Sethes new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I cant imagine American literature without it. -John Leonard, Los Angeles Times