It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey. Full of a baby's venom." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. The story opens with an introduction to the ghost: "124 was spiteful. A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe's home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sethe kills her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured and taken back to Sweet Home, the Kentucky plantation from which Sethe recently fled. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. Knopf, 1987Cloth hardcover, "First Edition" so stated on the copyright pageBoldly signed by Toni Morrison on the title pageThe book is in near fine condition, in a near fine dustjacket in a Brodart mylar dustjacket protectorfrom Wikipedia: "Beloved" is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. BELOVED a novel by Toni Morrison New York: Alfred A.
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