The Connell Short Guide To Toni Morrison's Beloved - Softcover

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The climax of Beloved features a naked, pregnant ghost. What is it about this strange book which catapulted Toni Morrison to fame? Part ghost story, part gothic melodrama, part revenge tragedy and part trauma narrative, Beloved is also a rewriting of history that meditates on violence, love, and the power of memory both to damage and to heal. A.S. Byatt has called it 'huge, generous, humane and gripping'. It 'gave her nightmares', she says. In this short guide Tessa Roynon looks at what makes the novel so powerful and why so many readers find it gets under their skin.

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