"DAZZLING… MAGICAL… AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK!" -New York Times "BRILLIANT… RESONATES FROM PAST TO PRESENT." – San Francisco Chronicle "A MAGNIFICENT HEROINE… A GLORIOUS BOOK!" – Baltimore Sun "BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN… POWERFUL… TONI MORRISON HAS BECOME ONE OF AMERICA 'S FINEST NOVELISTS." -Cleveland Plain Dealer "THERE IS SOMETHING GREAT IN BELOVED: A PLAY OF HUMAN VOICES, CONSCIOUSLY EXALTED, PERVERSELY STRESSED, YET HOLDING TRUE. IT GETS YOU." – The New Yorker "A STUNNING BOOK… A LASTING ACHIEVEMENT!" -Christian Science Monitor "Magical… rich, provocative, extremely satisfying!" – Milwaukee Journal "Superb… a profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history… exquisitely told." -Cosmopolitan "Compelling… Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry, and power she is born to tell comes out right." -Village Voice "In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." – St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Shattering emotional power and impact!" -New York Daily News "A book worth many rereadings." – Glamour "Astonishing… a triumph!"-New Woman "A work of genuine force… beautifully written." -Washington Post "Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction… One feels deep admiration." -USA Today "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure of our national literature."-New York Review of Books "Heart-wrenching… mesmerizing!" – Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Powerful is too tame a word to describe Toni Morrison's searing new novel." -Library Journal "Shatteringly eloquent."-Booklist "A rich, mythical novel… a triumph!"- St. Petersburg Times "Powerful… voluptuous!" – New York Magazine