“Shattering emotional power and impact. Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Beloved - the two highest honors in American literature. mesmerizing.” - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” - St. “A book worth many rereadings.” - Glamour Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” - The Village Voice “Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature. A lasting achievement.” - The Christian Science Monitor The American Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” - The Plain Dealer rich, provocative, extremely satisfying.” - Milwaukee Journal A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. “There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. Beautifully written.” - The Washington Post According to Merserand, by extension, Morrisonthe author had read a haunting magazine article published during the mid-19th century which detailed the story of Margaret Garner, a young slave who had fled to Cincinnati with her four small children. “Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” - New York Review of Books Resonates from past to present.” - San Francisco Chronicle An extraordinary work.” - The New York Times sets her apart displays her prodigious talent.” - Chicago Sun-Times “A triumph.” -Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review I can’t imagine American literature without it.” -John Leonard, Los Angeles Times

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