Beloved :
Morrison, Toni.
Beloved : a novel / by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]. - Picador ed. - London : Picador, 1988. - 275 p. ; 21 cm.
"Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this 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."--BOOK JACKET.
9781400033416 (pbk.)
2004555136
African American women--Fiction.
Women slaves--Fiction.
Infanticide--Fiction.
Ohio--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3563.O8749 / B4 2004
813/.54 M878b 1988
Beloved : a novel / by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]. - Picador ed. - London : Picador, 1988. - 275 p. ; 21 cm.
"Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this 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."--BOOK JACKET.
9781400033416 (pbk.)
2004555136
African American women--Fiction.
Women slaves--Fiction.
Infanticide--Fiction.
Ohio--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3563.O8749 / B4 2004
813/.54 M878b 1988