Beloved: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize-winner) [B0419]

1988 Plume PB printing of the 1987 original, with some wear, some underlining and a some highlighted text. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winning author. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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. "A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." -John Leonard, Los Angeles Times.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This book unsettled me in a totally abstract way - the writing and construction of the story is so beautifully poetic and disjointed because that's what makes it make the most sense. We're not supposed to be getting an easy-reading, straightforward storyline because of the nature of the setting; slavery in the 1800s where the trajectory of one's life is so unpredictable, but terror and pain is a guarantee. I think I'm going to re-memory this book for the rest of my life"; "Truly soul-crushing, but maybe the most beautifully written book I've ever read."; "I loved this. Beautiful writing, so much emotion, imagery, details that seem so little but mean so much, how each character has their own voice during the stream of consciousness chapters. Morrison's way with words is so.. lyrical? Beautiful? She was a legend! I loved how she was able to make you connect with the characters so well even though many of us have never and hopefully never will go through the stuff those characters went through. Even the absurdity of some of their actions felt sort of relatable to me."