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Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction)
by: Toni Morrison |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780452264465 ISBN: 0452264464 Label: Plume Manufacturer: Plume Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: September 01, 1988 Publisher: Plume Studio: Plume
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  - BelovedAmazon.com great company to buy from. Prices, shipping, etc. I was expecting a bit more in the book beings the movie was so good, did not hold my interest, but the price was good. Rating:  - Voice for the Voiceless - Noble (and Nobel) attemptBeloved HAD to be written. The African-American tragedy is told here in a way that the slaves could not have articulated themselves - but here their souls cry out. True, Toni Morrison does not quite make this a total work of Art. The devices are too obvious as she fulfills this almost impossible task she has set herself. In this book you LIVE the destruction/denigration of life - in a way I cannot remember experiencing in any other book. The characters, especially Beloved, are symbols - and yet they are very real and quite fascinating too! These are vibrant, exciting people - and Morrison gives them a voice and makes them so real! Rating: - OkayI read this book after reading The Known World and March so I had already had a good (better, actually) dose of reading about the inhumane conditions slaves lived under. This was a ho-hum book for me. I thought it was more work that it was worth and I wanted it over with and was glad when I finished it. I was really struck by Morrison taking you inside the damaged spirit of some of the characters. You learn how they only let themselves love others a little as all things important to them will likely be taken away. You learn the significance of a star or a leaf to someone who has no joy in their life whatsoever. You come to understand why a mother would rather take the life of her child than subject it to a life of continuous degradation and misery. Rating: - A Work of ArtGet a peek of what is to come next in this novel without knowing you're seeing the future. Morrison's artistic lyrics are outstanding. Rating:  - She really is impressed with herselfThe only thing worse than reading _Beloved_ (read my review of the novel) is listening to Morrison read it. She goes so s - l - o - w - l - y, and seems more impressed with her book than the reader. Quite frankly this book doesn't really demand this close of a reading. Although trite to say, the best compliment a writer can have is having someone else make the text come to life, and this audio book is interesting only as an historical artifact. |
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