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Beloved: A Novel (Vintage Classics) by [Morrison, Toni]

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THE CLASSIC NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING TONI MORRISON

‘A triumph’ Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books

It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece.

‘A magnificent achievement…an American masterpiece’ AS Byatt

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

Length: 352 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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

"A triumph." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review

"Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." --Chicago Sun-Times

"Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." --The New York Times

"A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." --Newsweek

"Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." --People

"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." --New York Review of Books

"A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." --The Washington Post

"There is something great in Beloved a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." --The New Yorker

"A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." --The Baltimore Sun

"Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." --Cosmopolitan

"Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." --Milwaukee Journal

"Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists." --The Plain Dealer

"Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." --The Christian Science Monitor

"Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration." --USA Today

"Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." --The Village Voice

"A book worth many rereadings." --Glamour

"In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Shattering emotional power and impact." --New York Daily News

"A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph." --St. Petersburg Times

"Powerful . . . voluptuous." --New York

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Print Length: 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage Digital; New Ed edition (4 September 2014)
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Language: English
ASIN: B00N3Q0SZK
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Nicholas Reid

Not quite my cuppa

17 November 2015

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I confess I skimmed the last fifty pages. The technique is competently handled, but this kind of point of view game (an omniscient narrator who so closely adopts the points of view of the characters that the reader is often left somewhat in the dark) has its drawbacks. I didn't end up caring particularly about the story or the characters.

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This book is going to have a lasting impact on me. Powerful, terrifying, beautiful. I will read it again one day.

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James S. Bennett

A truly great book. It's message resonates louder now than ever.

13 December 2014 - Published on Amazon.com

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I picked up this book because I wanted to get some perspective after the recent killings of unarmed black men by police officers. As a middle aged white guy, it was hard for me to put wrap my head around the pain and the anger felt by the residents of Ferguson, by the residents of New York. I have friends that are cops. My Facebook wall filled with persuasive arguments in defense of the police actions. But I saw the video of Eric Garner. I followed the news about Michael Brown. Still, I sympathized with the officers, which I knew in my heart was wrong. I wanted to understand how black people in this country experience life, and starting with the shameful history of slavery seemed like a good start.

Beloved is a truly great book that lives up to the hype. Hard to put down. The writing is excellent. The story is not one of suffering, but one of persevering through the insufferable. It's often hard to read, with the unflinching descriptions of torture and degradation. However, I'm a tiny bit closer to understanding.

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Philip Tannenbaum

dream like states, hallucinations

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If you aren't an Oprah fan, just push her association with the novel and film out of your mind. Buy this book or at least get it from the library. So much praise has been written already that there's little I can add, other than to say the novel merits its reputation. The general story (no spoilers here, don't worry) concerns the life of an escaped slave. But the novel explores not just events, but the way we perceive events, through memory, dream like states, hallucinations, how we relate to our dead and or how they may be relating to us. You've had events in your own life that you've thought about from different angles...events so complex that they never seem to be 100% resolved....different people have different perspectives on those events...even you, maybe, felt differently about it at times. This novel feels very like that; powerful, life changing events being difficult to pin down. Its shocking (nauseating), beautiful, difficult to read at times, difficult to stop reading, difficult to stop thinking about when you've finished. I suppose I'll read it again in 10 years to see if I learn anything new from it.

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I purchased this book to increase my number of books read from the PBS Great American Read. I felt that I needed a better score than 33% of the books on the Great 100 list. It is beautiful. I had purchased it previously but was not able to get into if for some reason. I think a better goal instead of increasing my total on the list of the Great American read would just be to read all of Toni Morrison. I'm now two to the good. Absolutely beautiful prose, characters, plot, etc. i did need a break from reading this book it was sometimes too heavy to read straight through.

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Emily Van Heukelom

This book reads almost like poetry. It's a really

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Toni Morrison's writing isn't "great". It is mind blowing.

This book reads almost like poetry. It's a really, really, really heavy story- a woman escapes slavery with her four young children, only to reach freedom in Ohio right about the time the Fugitive Act was enacted. Her former owner comes for her and her children, and she makes a desperate decision to take her children's lives, rather than have them live enslaved.

As time goes on, the ghost of the daughter she killed haunts their house and makes trouble in her life. She and her living daughter, Denver, try to summon the ghost, and a few weeks later a mysterious young woman shows up and basically moves in with them.

Highly recommended- take your time and read this one bunch of times. It can be really painful. But it is beautifully written and important to read.

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Joseph Sciuto

Sublime

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Many years ago, when I was a student in college one of my English Professors, Louis Simpson (A Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet) assigned the class James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" to read and write an essay on. The final part of the essay had to do with why you liked the book or didn't like the book. I thought about the question and was ready to come up with the usual reasons why I liked the book and then I decided I'm not going to do that. It was my last year in college and the grade I received for the class really didn't matter to me. In answer to the question I wrote, "I loved this book. It might very well be the greatest book I have ever read. I don't know why, but while reading this book I just felt like I was reading a great work of literature, something better and beyond anything I have ever read." Mr. Simpson loved my answer and I was shocked but over the years I came to realize why he loved my answer.

Since that time I have read many great books, but only a handful that left me feeling like Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," Hemingways' "The Sun Also Rises," Baldwin's "Another Country," Byron's "Don Juan," and now I can add to that list Toni Morrison's "Beloved."

Ms. Morrison's book transcends greatness and enters that rarefied stratosphere of the sublime, heavenly, and magical. "Beloved" is a masterful work of art that should be read by anyone who aspires to be a writer or a teacher. It is like DaVinci's "The Last Supper." It reaches into the past, depicting the brutality of slavery, while it's revelance remains even more powerful in the society we now live in, and like Yeats' wrote, "Neither time, nor place, nor art have moved it." It lives forever.

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