Beloved
Info
- Author: Toni Morrison
- Genre: Drama
- Publisher: Vintage
- Type: Official Novel Book
- Release: Jun 08, 2004
- ASIN/ISBN: 1400033411
- Rating:
- Status: Read (352 Pages)
Review
On Oct 26, 2007 Corinne said:
"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
"Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." -- The New York Times
"A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." -- Newsweek
"Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." -- People
"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." -- New York Review of Books
"A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." -- The Washington Post
"There is something great in Beloved: a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." -- The New Yorker
"A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." -- The Baltimore Sun
"Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." -- Cosmopolitan
"Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." -- Milwaukee Journal
"Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists." -- The Plain Dealer
"Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." -- The Christian Science Monitor
Details
Beloved is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The novel is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison later wrote in the opera Margaret Garner (2005).
In 1998 the novel was adapted into a film of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey.
A survey of eminent authors and critics conducted by The New York Times found Beloved the best work of American fiction of the past 25 years; it garnered 15 of 125 votes, finishing ahead of Don DeLillo's Underworld (11 votes), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8) and John Updike's Rabbit series (8). The results appeared in The New York Times Book Review on May 21, 2006.