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BELOVED, a novel
de MORRISON, Toni
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 0394535979
- ISBN 13
- 9780394535975
- Librería
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Knopf, 1987. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 275. Edges slightly spotted, nick to the rear dj panel, o/w a nice copy in slightly soiled dj. An extraordinary novel of slavery and its residual wounds, fears, and memories.
Sinopsis
Beloved (1987) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison. Morrison was inspired to write the story after finding a newspaper article about the legal case of Margaret Garner. Garner escaped slavery in Kentucky to the free State of Ohio when U.S. Marshals captured her. To spare her children from being returned to slavery, she killed her two-year-old daughter and attempted to kill her other children. Morrison's novel is set after the Civil War in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but even after the Civil War, she cannot wrest herself from the terrible legacy of slavery. Living with her 18-year-old daughter Denver, she believes the ghost of her eldest daughter haunts her house. When Paul D, a visitor from Sethe's past life on the plantation, comes to visit, he forces the spirit out of the house and gets Sethe and her daughter Denver to go to a carnival. Upon returning, a strange young woman, who calls herself Beloved, is sitting on the house's stoop. Sethe believes that the woman is the daughter she killed to prevent her from being raised in slavery, and Sethe becomes lost in her fantasy of family and caring for the girl. Beloved illustrates the deeply personal and psychological trauma imposed by society's legal brutalities. Beloved is the fourth novel published by Toni Morrison, and many consider it her finest. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1987. In 1998 a movie starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover was released.
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El Feb 18 2014, un lector dijo:
It isn't an easy read. It is often a beautiful read...but beauty and heartbreak are so close together. The lives of the characters have been so difficult, but Toni Morrison tells their stories with incredible depth and empathy. I've only read Beloved once, and I plan to do it again - this is one book that will keep giving on each read.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Second Life Books Inc
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 31735
- Título
- BELOVED, a novel
- Autor
- MORRISON, Toni
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0394535979
- ISBN 13
- 9780394535975
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1987
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Second Life Books Inc
Miembro de Biblio desde 2008
Lanesborough, Massachusetts
Sobre Second Life Books Inc
Established on 1972, we sell used and rare books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc. of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Booksellers .
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