The Resource Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
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The item Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Amesbury Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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. 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
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- eng
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780375405624
- Label
- Beloved
- Title
- Beloved
- Statement of responsibility
- a novel by Toni Morrison
- Title variation
- Beloved a novel
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Ohio -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Ghost stories
- Haunted places -- Ohio -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Infanticide -- Fiction
- African American mothers -- Fiction
- Novels
- Ohio -- Fiction
- Women slaves -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- African American women -- Ohio -- Fiction
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 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
- Awards note
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- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1988.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations, 1988.
- Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, 1988.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Morrison, Toni
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- High School
- LC call number
- PS3563.O8749
- LC item number
- B4 1987
- Literary form
- novels
- Reading level
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- 7.3 :
- 8.1
- Series statement
- Borzoi book
- Study program name
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- Accelerated Reader AR
- Reading Counts RC
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American women
- African American mothers
- Mothers and daughters
- Women slaves
- Infanticide
- Haunted places
- Ohio
- Ghost stories
- African Americans
- Label
- Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- 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
- ocm15284982
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375405624
- 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
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- 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
- ocm15284982
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375405624
- Lccn
- 86046157
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)15284982
Subject
- African Americans -- Ohio -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Ghost stories
- Haunted places -- Ohio -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Infanticide -- Fiction
- African American mothers -- Fiction
- Novels
- Ohio -- Fiction
- Women slaves -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- African American women -- Ohio -- Fiction
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