Beloved
(Large Print)
Author:
Published:
New York : Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Format:
Large Print
Edition:
Random House large print ed.
Physical Desc:
379 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure:
870L
Rating:
870L
Status:
Description
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe, who now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved.
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 both abominable and ennobling circumstance.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 both abominable and ennobling circumstance.
From the Hardcover edition.
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
Superior Large Print Fiction
LP FICTION Morrison, Toni
Available
Mar 20, 2024
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
0375704140
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6, 15 Points
Level 6, 15 Points
Lexile measure:
870
Notes
Target Audience
870L,Lexile
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Morrison, T. (1998). Beloved. Random House large print ed. New York, Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni. 1998. Beloved. New York, Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni, Beloved. New York, Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
MLA Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Random House large print ed. New York, Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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