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Beloved: Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Contributor(s): Morrison, Toni (Author), Byatt, A. S. (Introduction by)

ISBN: 0307264882 ISBN-13: 9780307264886
Publisher: Everyman's Library

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2006
Annotation: 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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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | African American - General

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2006050217

Lexile Measure: 870(Not Available)

Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics

Physical Information: 1.02" H x 5.28" W x 8.22" L (1.12 lbs) 360 pages

Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Geographic Orientation - Ohio

Features: Bibliography, Bookmark, Dust Cover, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 8652
Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison's Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe's house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe's terrible secret explodes into the present.

Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison's unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

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