Research Catalog
Beloved
- Title
- Beloved / a novel by Toni Morrison.
- Author
- Morrison, Toni
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 88-188 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 88-47 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll 93-468 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Description
- 275 pages; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
- Awards (note)
- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1988.
- Call Number
- Sc E 88-47
- ISBN
- 0394535979
- 9780394535975
- LCCN
- 86046157
- OCLC
- 15284982
- Author
- Morrison, Toni, author.
- Title
- Beloved / a novel by Toni Morrison.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- African AmericansAmericansWomen
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy no.1 with dust jacket.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1988.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 88-47Sc E 88-188JFE 87-4953Berg Coll 93-468