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Narrated by:
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Toni Morrison
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By:
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Toni Morrison
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe 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.
“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
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Critic reviews
“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
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Perfect voice for a great novel
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Difficult to follow
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The most moving and evocative book about enslavement written.
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Beloved
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Truly amazing
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Needs a professional narrator
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wow
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Everything stood out
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You will want to follow her on this journey, as I did, if you want to "live" something uniquely imagined, that includes deep pains and terrors, is part of the history of all Americans, and will pull you inside-out until your guts are exposed to the air.
"Not for everyone"? Well it's not a Great Escape, or what is commonly called "beach reading". But if you want the heavy stuff-- through the eyes and pen of an African American who is one of the most brilliant writers of our time, you could do worse tha trusting her own voice to lead you --through infernos and purgatories undreamed of by Dante.
And then, if you choose, you can go on to her novel "Paradise".
Pulls You Inside-Out
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Now, 31 years later, I listened to Beloved on audible - read by Morrison. It all came back and I found I loved this book both (even as it simultaneously devastated me) for the amazing literary achievement as much as for Morrison’s beautiful reading of it.
True...there are plenty of authors who should not be reading their own works. Toni Morrison is not one of them. She is so good, in fact, even though I have read all of her other works in hard copy, I will be purchasing those read by her on Audible and allowing myself the utter luxury of being carried away by a beautiful story read by an amazing narrator.
Those who complain about Morrison’s narration are missing it...
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