Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Sethe, a formerly enslaved mother of four, grapples with her traumatic past.
"DAZZLING ... MAGICAL ... AN EXTRAORDINARY
WORK!" --New York Times
"BRILLIANT ... RESONATES FROM PAST TO
PRESENT." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A MAGNIFICENT HEROINE ... A GLORIOUS
BOOK!" --Baltimore Sun
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN ... POWERFUL ...
TONI MORRISON HAS BECOME ONE OF
AMERICA'S FINEST NOVELISTS."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"THERE IS SOMETHING GREAT IN BELOVED: A
PLAY OF HUMAN VOICES, CONSCIOUSLY
EXALTED, PERVERSELY STRESSED, YET HOLDING
TRUE. IT GETS YOU." -- The New Yorker
"A STUNNING BOOK ... A LASTING
ACHIEVEMENT!" --Christian Science Monitor
TONI MORRISON was born in Lorain, Ohio. The recipient
of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, and of the
Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Beloved, she is the author of
six other novels. The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book
Critics Circle Award
for fiction, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Paradise, which are available
or forthcoming in Plume editions. She is Robert F.
Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, at Princeton
University.
"Magical ... rich, provocative, extremely satisfying!"
--Milwaukee Journal
"Superb ... a profound and shattering story that carries
the weight of history ... exquisitely told."
--Cosmopolitan
"Compelling. ... Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope
of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance,
poetry, and power she is born to tell comes out right."
--Village Voice
"In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated
once again the stunning powers that place her in
the first ranks of our living novelists."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Shattering emotional power and impact!"
--New York Daily News
"A book worth many rereadings."
--Glamour
"Astonishing ... a triumph!"
--New Woman
"A work of genuine force ... beautifully written."
--Washington Post
"Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction.... One feels deep admiration." --USA
Today
"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary
novelist but a major figure of our national literature."
--New York Review of Books
"Heart-wrenching ... mesmerizing!"
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Powerful is too tame a word to describe Toni
Morrison's searing new novel." --Library Journal
"Shatteringly eloquent."
--Booklist
"A rich, mythical novel ... a triumph!"
--St. Petersburg Times
"Powerful ... voluptuous!" --New York Magazine
