Beloved by Toni Morrison [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1988 • Plume

Beloved by Toni Morrison

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1988] PLUME BOOKS

First Plume Trade Edition / Printing w/ metallic embossed Pulitzer medal on cover. 

Book is in excellent condition.  

Light shelf wear to cover and some subtle tanning to pages.  Reads like new. 

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.