Volume 34, Number 17 · November 5, 1987
Ghost Story
By Thomas R. Edwards
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Knopf, 275 pp., $18.95
A novel like Toni Morrison's Beloved makes the reviewer's usual strategies of praise and grumbling seem shallow. I find it hard not to dwell on passages like this description of a fugitive slave trying to get out of the Old South, where what is seen and felt so delicately mirrors the condition of the observer:
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