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008			920325s1988 nyu 000 1 eng d
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050	0		_aPS3563.O8749 _bB4 1988
100	1		_aMorrison, Toni. _930778
245	1	0	_aBeloved : _ba novel / _cby Toni Morrison.
260			_aNew York : _bPlume, _c1988.
300			_a275 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_a"A Plume book."
520			_aAfter 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.
650		0	_aSlavery _zUnited States _vFiction. _930779
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xSocial conditions _yTo 1964 _vFiction. _930780
651		0	_aOhio _vFiction. _930781
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