Beloved -- Toni Morrison

<b>PULITZER PRIZE WINNER <b>-</b> <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER - An unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, f<b>rom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner</b>. This spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.</b> <p/>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, <i>Beloved </i>is a towering achievement.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Toni Morrison<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 10/22/2019<br><b>Pages:</b> 288<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.34lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.30d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780525659273<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 6<br><b>Point Value:</b> 15<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>8652 / Beloved<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>TONI MORRISON--who died in 2019--wrote eleven novels, from <i>The Bluest Eye</i> (1970) to <i>God Help the Child</i> (2015). She received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.</p>