Pub Date: June 8, 2004
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2004555136
Lexile Code: 0870
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.70" H x 7.90" L x 5.20" W ( 0.65 lbs) 368 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Literary | African American & Black | General | Coming of Age
Series: Vintage International
Description: Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brings the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of today and into the reader's comprehension.
Review Quotes: "A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
"A triumph." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review "Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." --Chicago Sun-Times "Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." --The New York Times "A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." --Newsweek "Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." --San Francisco Chronicle "A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." --People "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." --New York Review of Books "A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." --The Washington Post "There is something great in Beloved a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." --The New Yorker "A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." --The Baltimore Sun "Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." --Cosmopolitan "Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." --Milwaukee Journal "Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists." --The Plain Dealer "Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." --The Christian Science Monitor "Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration." --USA Today "Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." --The Village Voice "A book worth many rereadings." --Glamour "In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Heart-wrenching . . . mesmerizing." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Shattering emotional power and impact." --New York Daily News "A rich, mythical novel . . . a triumph." --St. Petersburg Times "Powerful . . . voluptuous." --New York