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Book Review of Beloved

Beloved
Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 2


As with the ghost at its center, Beloved has taken many forms--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to Oprah Winfrey's decade-in-the-making movie to this challenging audiobook read by Lynn Whitfield. Whitfield, who won an Emmy Award playing the title role in The Josephine Baker Story, has a tough assignment as she guides us back and forth in time with Sethe, an escaped slave who's still shackled by memories of her murdered child