“"124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom. The women of the house knew it and so did the children."
Beloved, a beautiful, horrible, frightening novel, opens with the ghost of a murdered baby. Through the course of the novel we meet a large cast of characters, living and dead, black and white, who are twisted and damaged by the institution of slavery. This is not an easy book, but it is an important and memorable one, probably a great one. The writing style is so experimental, that I don't see how the movie was ever made, and I wouldn't judge the book by the Hollywood version of it.”
sthurner wrote this review Tuesday, June 23 2009.
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