![]() ![]() ![]() Race issues are at the heart of many of Morrison's most enduring novels, from the ways that white concepts of beauty affect a girl's self image in The Bluest Eye to themes of segregation in Sulu and slavery in her signature work Beloved. With her incredible string of lyrical, imaginative, and adventurous modern classics Toni Morrison lays claim to being one of America's best novelists. Currently-lives in Princeton, NJ and New York, NY.Awards-Nobel Prize, 1993, National Book Critics' Circle.Education-B.A., Howard University M.A., Cornell,.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. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. ![]()
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