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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Contributor(s): Morrison, Toni (Author)

ISBN: 1400033411 ISBN-13: 9781400033416
Publisher: Vintage

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2004
Annotation: Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved" is a towering achievement.

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | African American - General
- Fiction | Coming Of Age

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2004555136

Lexile Measure: 870(Not Available)

Series: Vintage International

Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.2" W x 8" L (0.75 lbs) 352 pages

Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Catalog Heading - Language Arts
- Curriculum Strand - Language Arts

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Review Citations: Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2005 pg. 49

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 8652
Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding New York Times bestseller 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.

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