Beloved : a novel /
by Toni Morrison.
- 1st Vintage International ed.
- New York : Vintage International, 2004.
- xix, 321 p. ; 21 cm.
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Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.