BELOVED, Toni Morrison, 1ST EDITION & PRINTING, Knopf, 1987

Description: Here on offer is a very nice copy of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved, an historical fiction work inspired by actual events. This copy is a true 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the book published by Alfred Knopf in 1987. The dustjacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ******************************************************************************************************************* "PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. 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." ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. . . . Morrison became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her novel Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. She received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020. The above text was taken from, respectively, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. [Morrison, Toni. Beloved. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.] This handsome copy would be a worthy addendum to your 1st editions library.

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