| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 321 pages) |
| Summary |
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. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before. |
| Audience |
870L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.0 15 8652 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 6.0 15 8652 |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1987. With a new foreword by the author. |
| Summary |
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistently haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
African American women -- Fiction.
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Women slaves -- Fiction.
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Infanticide -- Fiction.
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African American women. |
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Infanticide. |
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Women slaves. |
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Ohio -- Fiction.
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Ohio. |
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Ohio -- Fiction. |
| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morrison, Toni. Beloved New York : Vintage International, 2004 1400033411 (DLC) 2004555136 (OCoLC)55604617 |
| ISBN |
9780307388629 : $48.00 |
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030738862X : $48.00 |
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