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In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved. A dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret--these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. Morrison, a Nobel laureate, has written many fine novels, including Song o
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 8 June 2004
ISBN-10 : 1400033411 | ISBN-13: 9781400033416
Release date: 8 June 2004
ISBN-10 : 1400033411 | ISBN-13: 9781400033416
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World's Best Known Books and Stories (476 books items)
"Written by: Toni Morrison Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Publication date September 16,1987 Pages: 324 โMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.โ "
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"The horrors of slavery are made harrowingly real in a remarkable novel that possesses the intimacy of real life and the epic power of myth."
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