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Beloved Paperback – Unabridged, June 8, 2004

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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.

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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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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved" is a towering achievement.

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Paperback: 321 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (June 8, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400033411
ISBN-13: 978-1400033416
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 1,032 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #99 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary
- #103 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Coming of Age

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Emily Van Heukelom

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

May 2, 2017

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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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A. Barber

I am convinced that Toni Morrison is the best writer in the world

July 15, 2016

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I am convinced that Toni Morrison is the best writer in the world. My gosh--how can someones soul paint such vivid and emotional characters, era, such real feelings. Not the best place and era to be transported to but Professor Morrison will certainly do it. This book alone put Toni Morrison in a category all by herself... I mean I can go on and on and on and on about her literary style, gifts and etc. If you haven't read this yet it's a must for a realistic escape.

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September 24, 2017

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Beloved was a tough book to read, it is composed of flashbacks and memories narrated in no chronological order which makes it hard to understand. After a few pages I almost gave up. But then I realized It would be very interesting to read a renowned novel that contains a poetic examination of slavery. However, I decided to continue reading the book. As I was going through the pages I was getting involved in the story and picturing all the details written by Morrison. I would definitely recommend this book and give 5 stars to this incredible and magical piece of art.

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Philip Tannenbaum

dream like states, hallucinations

April 22, 2018

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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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Exceptional Book that Allows the Reader to See and Feel the Heart that is Hurt and Full of Pain

December 27, 2013

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Toni Morrison is an awesome author who creates a picture or imprint on your mind as you read the book. It grips at your heart, and somehow you can feel the pain. It makes you shudder to think of how evil and cruel humanity can be. People were worse than animals in their treatment of so many people of this era. The chain gang was a terrible way to make people live. It shows how power in the hands of the wrong people can bring about a hell on earth. We might not be able to believe these things could really happen, that man was capable of such things were it not for the proof that we have in so much of history. But then we can look at today with recent events like the man holding three young women as hostages, locked up, treating them like animals and we know that evil can exist in man beyond what most of us could ever imagine. We see young people shooting and killing teachers and innocent people so we know that evil continues today but not in such an open and accepted way as it was during the time of Beloved. This book lets you see EVIL but it also shows how people love one another and can forgive and overcome. It shows how hurt people need the support of the community, healing from a society. Great book, great author.

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So Many Things

December 30, 2017

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I feel changed after reading this book. So complex, so painful, so painfully beautiful, such life in the telling of this story. As a Black queer womyn, I have grown tired of the handling slavery narrative. Of the laziness of its use and overuse as a point of reference. But what Morrison does so well is bring life to the complexities of Black life and love in the face of the worst part of American history. I would even go as far to say, it goes beyond the political. It circles down to the smallest particles of her characters' lives and inner self-talk/workings. I don't even know if this review will capture all that I think and feel and see after reading this book.

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Kathy

A must-read for any serious reader

October 31, 2017

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This is a true masterpiece by one of America's premier writers. It is so much more than a ghost story, although it is that too. It is a novel that probes to the very heart of what it means to be human, that explores why the past is never really past, how desperation can lead to both unthinkable acts and the resulting shunning by society. I read this when it first came out and found it difficult and troubling. Now, twenty years later, I found it deeply satisfying. It spoke truth to my heart.

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August 22, 2017

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This author continues to capture the reader's interest in her stories of love and loss. Her characters are strong women and men looking for all that life at that time offers. This is a strong love story filled with dangerous situations and unknown outcomes. Enjoy

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A wonderful story with strong insight into a freed Steve's thoughts and feelings. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. One more word in order to submit.

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Joseph Bloch

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Your product is of good quality. Hated the book, but that's not your fault. Imitation Faulkner.

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Carol J

Only average

Did not care for the writing style.

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Alison Ferdinand

Good quality, good content

The condition of the book was great! Toni Morrison is one of my favorite authors and the content of the book is as wonderful as he rest of her work.Read more

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Darkness redeemed

It is a complex story which gripped me from the beginning with its memorable characters, strongly drawn.Read more

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The story is fine, however all the typos were really annoying. Most times when the word fiancé came up...it was fian..with a series of numbers and/or symbols.Read more

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D. Smith

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Good but not great. There are so many great ones out there but this isn't one of them.

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newmoon

Stunning

Took a bit to get into but then it got me!! Gained a lot of insight to a world I hope never to know. Still a little confused about some sections and events.Read more

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