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REVIEWS: Beloved
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NY Times
The Guardian
Good Reads
Book Companion
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The
Great American Read. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of
slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history
into a story
as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its
protagonist,
was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen
years later she is still not free.
She has too many memories of
Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things
happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her
baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a
single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as
taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.
Characters:47. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Beloved
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Bluestone
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Samuel
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George
III on Wikipedia. |
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Richmond
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