Beloved

"A masterwork. . . . Wonderful. . . . I can't imagine American literature without it." --John Leonard, "Los Angeles Times ""A triumph." --Margaret Atwood, "The New York Times Book Review ""Toni Morrison's finest work. . . . [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent." --"Chicago Sun-Times ""Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work." --"The New York Times ""A masterpiece. . . . Magnificent. . . . Astounding. . . . Overpowering." --"Newsweek ""Brilliant. . . . Resonates from past to present." --"San Francisco Chronicle ""A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. . . . Read it and tremble." --"People ""Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." --"New York Review of Books ""A work of genuine force. . . . Beautifully written." --"The Washington Post ""There is something great in Beloved": " a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. It gets you." --"The New Yorker ""A magnificent heroine . . . a glorious book." --"The Baltimore Sun ""Superb. . . . A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. . . . Exquisitely told." --"Cosmopolitan ""Magical . . . rich, provocative, extremely satisfying." --"Milwaukee Journal ""Beautifully written. . . . Powerful. . . . Toni Morrison has become one of America's finest novelists." --"The Plain Dealer ""Stunning. . . A lasting achievement." --"The Christian Science Monitor ""Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. . . . One feels deep admiration." --"USA Today ""Compelling . . . . Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope ofhers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out." --"The Village Voice ""A book worth many rereadings." --"Glamour ""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. Louis Post-Dispatch