The Resource Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
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- Summary
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- Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past
- 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
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394535975
- Label
- Beloved
- Title
- Beloved
- Statement of responsibility
- a novel by Toni Morrison
- Subject
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- trueSlavery
- trueFugitive slaves
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Infanticide -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMagical realism
- trueModern classics
- trueMothers and daughters
- Ohio -- Fiction
- trueOhio -- History -- 19th century
- trueSouthern Gothic
- Women slaves -- Fiction
- trueSouthern fiction
- true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- trueChildren -- Death | Psychological aspects
- trueCoping in women
- trueFreed slaves
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past
- 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
- Summary
- Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistently haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl
- Award
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- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1988.
- Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 1988.
- Great American Read, 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 046250
- Cataloging source
- HCO
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Morrison, Toni
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 870
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 870
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American women
- Women slaves
- Infanticide
- Ohio
- Target audience
- adult
- 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
- 319334
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394535975
- Lccn
- 86046157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (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
- 319334
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780394535975
- Lccn
- 86046157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)15284982
Subject
- trueSlavery
- trueFugitive slaves
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Infanticide -- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMagical realism
- trueModern classics
- trueMothers and daughters
- Ohio -- Fiction
- trueOhio -- History -- 19th century
- trueSouthern Gothic
- Women slaves -- Fiction
- trueSouthern fiction
- true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- trueChildren -- Death | Psychological aspects
- trueCoping in women
- trueFreed slaves
Genre
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMagical realism
- trueModern classics
- trueSouthern Gothic
Included in
- trueRobert F. Kennedy Book Award
- trueClassic Historical Fiction
- trueGreat American Read 2018
- truePulitzer Prize: Fiction
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