
Beloved
Gift Edition
Hardcover
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Hardcover (8/12/1987)
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Paperback (3/1/1999)
Paperback (10/1/2008)
Paperback (9/1/1988)
Hardcover, Korean (10/1/2019)
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Description
Sethe works at " beating back the past, " but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in her memory; in Denver's fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes Baby Suggs; in the arrival of Paul D, a fellow former slave; and, most powerfully, in Beloved, whose childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who has now come from the " place over there" to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present--and to throw off the long-dark legacy of her past--is at the center of this spellbinding novel. But it also moves beyond its particulars, combining imagination and the vision of legend with the unassailable truths of history.
Upon the original publication of Beloved, John Leonard wrote in the "Los Angeles Times": " I can't imagine American literature without it." In fact, more than a decade later, it remains a preeminent novel of our time, speaking with timeless clarity and power to our experience as a nation with a past of bothabominable and ennobling circumstance.
Alfred A. Knopf, 9780375402739, 322pp.
Publication Date: September 1, 1998