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Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War , the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit .
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist.He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Beloved, based on the Toni Morrison novel; Beloved, a French film written and directed by Christophe Honoré; The Beloved, a Soviet film directed by Ivan Pyryev; The Beloved, also known as Sin, a 1971 British film written and directed by George P. Cosmatos; The Beloved, a Georgian film
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He drew most directly on his Vietnam experience in his first novel Close Quarters which was published in 1977. His second and critically most acclaimed novel is Paco's Story, which won the 1987 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction [3] in a major surprise that has remained controversial, as Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved was widely expected to win.
Kurt Vonnegut (/ ˈ v ɒ n ə ɡ ə t / VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. [1] His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death.
Beloved is a 1998 American gothic psychological horror drama film [2] directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandiwe Newton.Based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, the plot centers on a formerly enslaved woman after the American Civil War, her haunting by a poltergeist, and the visitation of her reincarnated daughter.
"Readings" bookstore called the novel "Tender and witty, The Beloved is a moving debut novel which paints a vivid portrait of both the beauty and the burden of unconditional love." [ 2 ] Mary Anne Elliott, reviewing the novel in The Northern Star stated: "Faulkner's engaging and evocative narrative never falters; it is by turns wise, witty and ...