The novel powerfully portrays the meanings of what it means to be owned by another and the difficulty of owning oneself. Mythic in scope, BELOVED is an attempt to grapple with the legacy of slavery.
Toni Morrison (Author)
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula,
Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics
Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian
honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August
2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
A S Byatt (Introducer)
A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of
international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the
Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children's Book,
which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and
DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her
'inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak Kyongni Prize
2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature
Award.
She's a masterful craftsperson, which people tend to overlook. She
is as great and as innovative as Faulkner and Garcia Marquez and
Woolf.
*New York Times*
Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose...She has the
ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the
hallmark of a genuine writer
*The Guardian*
Toni Morrison's writing is a train that knows where it's going,
fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in
description
*Sunday Times*
Morrison's prize-winning, masterly, and disturbing novel Beloved should be an essential part of every library in every format. The story of the escaped slave Sethe and the past that literally and figuratively haunts her is rightfully still vivid, and, in Morrison's controlled reading, the words and images linger powerfully in our mind's eye. The novel was both well researched and imaginatively constructed to show the horrors and costs of both slavery and freedom for these characters who are by turns unforgettable, tragic, and mystical. The library packaging in CD format will allow libraries to enhance their collections or replace the original 20-year-old cassette version. Highly recommended.-Joyce Kessel, Villa Maria Coll., Buffalo, NY Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
She's a masterful craftsperson, which people tend to overlook. She
is as great and as innovative as Faulkner and Garcia Marquez and
Woolf. * New York Times *
Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose...She has the
ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the
hallmark of a genuine writer * The Guardian *
Toni Morrison's writing is a train that knows where it's going,
fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description
* Sunday Times *
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