Beloved
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ISBN:
9781400033416
9780375405624
9780307388629
9780739346747
9780375405624
9780307388629
9780739346747
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6, 15 Points
Level 6, 15 Points
Lexile measure:
870L
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| Grouped Work ID | ef2c6f16-4ad0-24e7-a2d3-f35a7a126439 |
|---|---|
| Grouping Title | beloved |
| Grouping Author | toni morrison |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-04-25 11:44:46AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-04-25 11:45:54AM |
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Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019
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Morrison, Toni
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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- read it and tremble. 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.
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed.
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870
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MORRISON
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Wake County Public Libraries
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East Regional
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9781400033416
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2004
2006
2007
2006
2007
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Vintage International
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Vintage International
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Vintage International|
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African American women -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Infanticide -- Fiction
Ohio -- Fiction
Women slaves -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Infanticide -- Fiction
Ohio -- Fiction
Women slaves -- Fiction
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Beloved
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Beloved
Beloved / a novel by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]
Beloved / a novel by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]
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Beloved
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African American Fiction
African American women
Fiction
Infanticide
Literature
Women slaves
African American women
Fiction
Infanticide
Literature
Women slaves
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