This is a softcover book, Beloved by Toni Morrison.  It is a First Plume Printing from September 1988.  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.  The novel, set after the American Civil War, tells the story of a family of former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Beloved is inspired by a true-life incident involving Margaret Garner, an escaped slave from Kentucky who fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856, but was captured in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. When U.S. marshals burst into the cabin where Garner and her husband had barricaded themselves, they found that she had killed her two-year-old daughter and was attempting to kill her other children to spare them from being returned to slavery.

Book is in good used condition.  The pages are very clean, binding is tight, and the cover shows only a little minor wear.  There is a price code from a used book store penciled inside, but no other writing or marks.  Asking $4.00 obo. Everything I have listed for sale is "or best offer", so feel free to make an offer.

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