Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International)
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” ( People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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.
“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times Read more
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Specifications
| Illustrated | No |
Product Details
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Publication date | June 8, 2004 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 321 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1400033411 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1400033416 |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Reading age | 1 year and up |
| Dimensions | 5.17 x 0.81 x 7.93 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #870 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #30 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #54 in Black & African American Literature (Books) #56 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (20,546) |
