Beloved
Toni Morrison
Gavin described this book as an extremely powerful account of the life of a
black woman coming to terms with her own enslavement and its effects on her life. Set in Ohio, USA in the 1870s the book tells of the inhumanity of the slave system that affects every aspect of this woman's existence. Gavin noted that the strength of the imagery really lived in the mind. Perhaps the only quibbles Gavin had with the book were its
use of local idiom which he struggled to understand at first, and its use of a ghost which again was initially difficult to reconcile with the books otherwise realist tone.
Gavin 13/2/00
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