Beloved
(Cassette - Unabridged)
Author:
Contributors:
Published:
New York : Random House Audiobooks, [1998].
Format:
Cassette - Unabridged
Physical Desc:
8 audiocassettes (12 hr.) : analog
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure:
870L
Rating:
870
Status:
Description
Nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Recording, Toni Morrison's Beloved.
"The novel as spoken word is a completely new venue for readers and returns narrative to its origins. I am overjoyed that one of my books get to participate in this rejuvenation."
-Toni Morrison on her Grammy nomination
8 cassettes / 12 hours
Beautifully read by the Author, Toni Morrison
Unabridged
Listen to Toni Morrison read her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Beloved.
Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe, who now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved.
Sethe works at 'beating back the past,' but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in her memory; in Denver's fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes Baby Suggs; in the arrival of Paul D, a fellow former slave; and, most powerfully, in Beloved, whose childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who has now come from the 'place over there' to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present - and to throw off the long-dark legacy of her past - is at the center of this spellbinding novel. But it also moves beyond its particulars, combining imagination and the vision of legend with the unassailable truths of history.
Upon the original publication of Beloved, John Leonard wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "I can't imagine American literature without it."
In fact, more than a decade later, it remains a preeminent novel of our time, speaking with timeless clarity and power to our experience as a nation with a past of both abominable and ennobling circumstance.
"The novel as spoken word is a completely new venue for readers and returns narrative to its origins. I am overjoyed that one of my books get to participate in this rejuvenation."
-Toni Morrison on her Grammy nomination
8 cassettes / 12 hours
Beautifully read by the Author, Toni Morrison
Unabridged
Listen to Toni Morrison read her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Beloved.
Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe, who now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved.
Sethe works at 'beating back the past,' but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in her memory; in Denver's fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes Baby Suggs; in the arrival of Paul D, a fellow former slave; and, most powerfully, in Beloved, whose childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who has now come from the 'place over there' to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present - and to throw off the long-dark legacy of her past - is at the center of this spellbinding novel. But it also moves beyond its particulars, combining imagination and the vision of legend with the unassailable truths of history.
Upon the original publication of Beloved, John Leonard wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "I can't imagine American literature without it."
In fact, more than a decade later, it remains a preeminent novel of our time, speaking with timeless clarity and power to our experience as a nation with a past of both abominable and ennobling circumstance.
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
Lac Courte Oreilles Audiobooks
TB 813.54 MOR
Available
Sep 23, 2019
Subjects
LC Subjects
Other Subjects
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
0375404872
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6, 15 Points
Level 6, 15 Points
Lexile measure:
870
Notes
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Participants/Performers
Read by the author.
Description
Tells the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives with her daughter Denver, her mother-in-law, and a disturbing apparition who calls herself Beloved.
Target Audience
870,Lexile.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Morrison, T., & Whitfield, L. (1998). Beloved. New York, Random House Audiobooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni and Lynn. Whitfield. 1998. Beloved. New York, Random House Audiobooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni and Lynn. Whitfield, Beloved. New York, Random House Audiobooks, 1998.
MLA Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni. and Lynn Whitfield. Beloved. New York, Random House Audiobooks, 1998.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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