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"A dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. As Morrison takes us deeper into the principal character's history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby's death start to make terrible sense. The narrative builds inexorably to its powerful conclusion. The defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by" (Alex Wilbur). The literary critic Patricia Storace has summed up Morrison's achievement brilliantly: "Toni Morrison is relighting the angles from which we view American history, changing the very color of its shadows, showing whites what they look like in black mirrors. To read her work is to witness something unprecedented, an invitation to a literature to become what it has claimed to be, a truly American literature" (Patricia Storace). Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. "Beloved" was selected by The New York Times panel of writers, editors, and critics as the single most important work of American fiction of the last 25 years. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

Knopf, 1987-09-01. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Stated first edition, 1987. Interior looks free of underlining and highlighting. Exterior has some shelf wear. Dust jacket has some bumping along the edges. DJ has been custom fitted with an archival wrap. Please see pictures for condition.

First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 275 p. A first edition copy of Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Near fine in near-fine price-clipped dustjacket in mylar cover.

Alfred A. Knopf. Library stamp on ffep. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Ex libris. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1987.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1987. 1. Very Good. Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination.It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death 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: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved.Sethe works at "beating back the past," but it is alive in all of them. It keeps Denver fearful of straying from the house. It fuels the sadness that has settled into Baby Suggs' "desolated center where the self that was no self made its home." And to Sethe, the past makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in memories that both haunt and soothe her...in the arrival of Paul D ("There was something blessed in his manner. Women saw him and wanted to weep"), one of her fellow slaves on the farm where she had once been kept...in the vivid and painfully cathartic stories she and Paul D tell each other of their years in captivity, of their glimpses of freedom...and, most powerfully, in the apparition of Beloved, whose eyes are expressionless at their deepest point, whose doomed childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who, as daughter, sister and seductress, has now come from the "place over there" to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining full possession of her present--and to throw off the long, dark legacy of her past--is at the center of this profoundly affecting and startling novel. But its intensity and resonance of feeling, and the boldness of its narrative, lift it beyond its particulars so that it speaks to our experience as an entire nation with a past of both abominable and ennobling circumstance.In Beloved, Toni Morrison has given us a great American novel. Toni Morrison was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Literature for Beloved. HardcoverBox 3

Library stamp on ffep. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Ex libris.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1987. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1987 Knopf FIRST edition/FIRST printing from the late and highly honored author. Beloved won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This book is in NearFine/NearFine condition. The DJ is price clipped but shows only very minor wear. The hardback is intact with no marks, lettering bends or folds. A wonderful copy of a classic and one of the great works of modern fiction from the1993 Nobel Prize Winner.

Knopf New York, 1987. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Very good in a fine dust jacket. Slight bruising to corners. Slight foxing to top edge. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality Mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free shop.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1992-12-01. ReliÔøΩ. Very Good. 1.2600 9.1300 6.3000. 6th printing, signed by author

Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. Inscribed by author Toni Morrison at fly leaf to a previous owner. Third printing. No jacket. Speckled cream cloth with silver titling and decoration, faintly bumped to spine ends and lightly to top fore-edge corner of front panel. Spine square. Binding cracked at half title, intact, and else sound. Pages bright, text unmarked.