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Beloved [sound recording] / by Toni Morrison.

Morrison, Toni. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780739342275 :
  • ISBN: 0739342274 :
  • Physical Description: 10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, p1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by the author.
Summary, etc.:
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. 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, Beloved is a towering achievement. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before.
Subject: African American women > Fiction.
Women slaves > Fiction.
Infanticide > Fiction.
Ohio > Fiction.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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0 current holds with 1 total copy.

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Main CD Fiction Morrison 10 discs (Text) 31307017209190 Audiobooks Available -

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Beloved
Beloved
by Morrison, Toni (Author, Read by)
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Author Notes

Beloved

Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio on February 18, 1931. She received a B.A. in English from Howard University in 1953 and a master's degree in English from Cornell University in 1955 with her thesis on the theme of suicide in modern literature. She taught at several universities including Texas Southern University, Howard University, and Princeton University. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. Her other works include Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Paradise, Love, A Mercy, Home, and God Help the Child. She has won several awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon in 1977, the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved in 1988, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, the Edward MacDowell Medal for her outstanding contribution to American culture in 2016, and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. She also co-wrote children's books with her son, Slade Morrison, including The Big Box, The Book of Mean People, and Peeny Butter Fudge. Toni Morrison passed away on August 5, 2019 at the age of 88, after a short illness. (Bowker Author Biography)


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