![]() ![]() Sorry Stephen King: evil clowns and alcoholic would-be writers are pretty creepy, but they just got nothing on the terrifying specter of American slavery! I literally got chills - physical chills - over and over while reading this book. Alix Wilberīeloved is the Great American Horror Novel. Beloved may well be the defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by. And as past meets present in the shape of a mysterious young woman about the same age as Sethe's daughter would have been, the narrative builds inexorably to its powerful, painful conclusion. ![]() As Morrison takes us deeper into Sethe's history and her memories, the horrifying circumstances of her baby's death start to make terrible sense. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved.Ī dead child, a runaway slave, a terrible secret-these are the central concerns of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved.īeloved is a dense, complex novel that yields up its secrets one by one. In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. ![]()
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