"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