Morrison, Toni

Beloved

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #006094

Gift edition. Tan and hunter green paper boards. 324 pp. Spine foot bumped. Fine dust jacket with original price sticker to rear and movie tie-in half sleeve. Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize winning novel, first published in 1987, brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad.

Price: $40.00