Beloved by Toni Morrison [FIRST GIFT EDITION] 1998 Hardcover

Beloved by Toni Morrison 

FIRST GIFT EDITION [1987] ALFRED A. KNOPF

A beautiful commemorative gift edition released to accompany the 1998 film.  Edition is a near identical reprint of the first edition in a slightly smaller size. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  A few scuffs to dust jacket and some general shelf wear.   Book itself looks and reads like new. 

Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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.