'An American masterpiece'AS ByattWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNER BERNARDINE EVARISTOSethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there,Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child,the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word,'Beloved'. A tale of brutality,horror and,above all,love at any cost,Beloved is Toni Morrison's enduring masterpiece and best-known work.Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels,published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.'The literary titian we must never stop learning from'MetroWinner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784876432Number of pages: 384Weight: 276 gDimensions: 178 x 129 x 23 mm
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'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours... Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery,and should be read by all'
'I adored her honesty. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. I believed her''(Toni Morrison) led and we followed,and she showed us the beauty of the language,and the power that was unleashed when that beauty was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mind''No other writer in my lifetime,or perhaps ever,has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart''Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known'Toni Morrison
A true titan of twentieth-century American literature,Toni Morrison,who died in 2019 at the age of 88,was a pioneering author,editor and global icon. Over a long and distinguished career,her trailblazing novels became a mainstay of school syllabuses,making her a household name and earning her a slew of awards,including the Pulitzer prize,the Légion d'Honneur and a Presidential Medal of Freedom - presented to her in 2012 by Barack Obama. In one of a lifetime of barrier-breaking moments,she was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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An award-winning novelist,poet,dramatist,essayist and activist,Bernardine Evaristo is the joint winner of The Booker Prize 2019 for Girl,Woman,Other and the first Black female author to top the fiction chart in the UK.
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