Beloved (Pulitzer Prize Winner) [B1038]

2004 PB in nice clean condition. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. 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: "It is difficult to explain how a story can shake your whole being. My first Toni Morrison, the Bluest Eye, was beautifully written and tragic, and made me want more from her world of words. Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize, was an experience unlike any other. Beloved is a harrowing and important story of a former slave who is haunted by one of her children. It is a feat of magical realism that meditates on grief, the consequences of dehumanization, and what it means to love and protect as an act of defiance."; "Oh my god. this was my first Toni Morrison book and I hate that I hadn't read it sooner. There were definitely times when I had to reread pages cuz I got a little lost but that's on me. Wonderful wonderful read."