Beloved (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525659273)

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 Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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.

"A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

Author: Toni Morrison
ISBN-10: 0525659277
ISBN-13: 9780525659273
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 8652 / Beloved