Upon the original publication of Beloved, John Leonard wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "I can\'t imagine American literature without it." Nearly two decades later, The New York Times chose Beloved as the best American novel of the previous fifty years.
Toni Morrison\'s magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning work--first published in 1987--brought the wrenching experience of slavery into the literature of our time, enlarging our comprehension of America\'s orig.
Upon the original publication of Beloved, John Leonard wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "I can\'t imagine American literature without it." Nearly two decades later, The New York Times chose Beloved as the best American novel of the previous fifty years