Beloved
by:
Toni Morrison (author)
From one of America's most brilliant and acclaimed writers comes her most important and accomplished achievement yet, the magnificently told, powerfully moving story of remarkable occurrences in the life and spirit of an ex-slave.
From one of America's most brilliant and acclaimed writers comes her most important and accomplished achievement yet, the magnificently told, powerfully moving story of remarkable occurrences in the life and spirit of an ex-slave.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394535975 (0394535979)
Publish date: August 12th 1987
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 275
Edition language: English
I don't really know what to say about this book, literature-wise. What I know is that it touched me. I left a comment over halfway through, about crying to the beat of the lifting bits, and negative spaces, and I don't know if I'm capable of doing it more justice. There was a lot that kept crashin...
to raise a child or banish a ghost. The end of the novel, the sense of strength, hope, community and forgiveness, repays the reader for the trauma endured and a story powerful enough to make tears flow like rivers. There are some truly incredible lines. The language Morrison uses is evocative an...
Well, the third week really hit my bingo experience out of the ballpark this year -- and not only because it finished with my first completed bingo; that was actually just the icing on the cake. But it included no less than three absolutely knock-out fabulous books, plus a fourth that was almost as...
Well, the third week really hit my bingo experience out of the ballpark this year -- and not only because it finished with my first completed bingo; that was actually just the icing on the cake. But it included no less than three absolutely knock-out fabulous books, plus a fourth that was almost as...
This story is so full of rage and love and pain and grief, and I can’t do it justice with a review, except to say that it broke my heart and I am a little different for having read it. Hardcover version. This is one of those books that is absolutely not suited to audio, at least on the first readi...
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