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Genre/Form: | Classical fiction Fiction History Movie novels Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
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Toni Morrison |
ISBN: | 9780099511656 9780099273936 0099511657 9781448103621 0099273934 1448103622 |
OCLC Number: | 166314827 |
Notes: | Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. |
Awards: | Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988 (United States) |
Description: | 321 pages ; 20 cm. |
Series Title: | Vintage classics. |
Responsibility: | Toni Morrison. |
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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' 'Morrison is, to me, the best writer the English-speaking world has ever seen' 'Morrison's legacy in commemorating slavery's survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come' 'Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together' 'I have never read anyone else like her . . . She was an opener of doors, doors that seemed they might always be shut, doors shut so tight they seemed not to be doors at all' 'Her legacy is total excellence . . . she is magnificent, her emotional intelligence is second to none and her bravery was equal to her artistry' 'Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the twentieth century' '[Toni Morrison's] irreverence was godly' * Guardian * A beautiful book and it's beautifully written -- Kit de Waal * Good Housekeeping UK * My favourite book of all time -- Sareeta Domingo * Good Housekeeping * Morrison's stunning trilogy is an evocation of black life over the past four centuries. It defies summary. Completed almost 25 years ago, these novels top anything produced by any American writer including Hemingway, Updike and DeLillo -- Trevor Phillips * Sunday Times * [A] beautiful, haunting novel -- Stig Abell * Sunday Times * A magnificent achievement...an American masterpiece -- A.S. Byatt * Guardian * A triumph -- Margaret Atwood * New York Times Book Review * She melds horror and beauty in a story that will disturb the mind forever * Sunday Times * Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature * New York Review of Books * Read more...


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