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A pristine copy of the first edition, signed by the author on the title page. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Morrison's powerful novel of guilt, sacrifice and redemption won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Chronicling the life of a Black woman named Sethe during and after her enslavement, the novel has become a modern classic and a landmark in Black feminist literature. In 1993, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Morrison, "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality" (Nobel Foundation). Beloved was a major factor in Morrison being chosen for the award. The novel was also adapted into a 1998 film starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Beloved is a novel by Toni Morrison published in 1987. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and is set after the American Civil War. It tells the story of a family of former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.