will banish Sethe's ghost, and hear her stories from the past. (But was there much difference between them?) Sethe will honor Paul D.'s humiliated manhood Paul D. Then to the possessed house comes Paul D., one of the "Pauls" who, along with Sethe, had been a slave on the "Sweet Home" plantation under two owners-one "enlightened," one vicious. But the boys have by now run off, scared, and the murdered first daughter "has palsied the house" with rage. It was she who nursed Sethe, the runaway-near death with a newborn-and gave her a brief spell of contentment when Sethe was reunited with her two boys and first baby daughter. Full of a baby's venom." Sethe's mother-in-law, a good woman who preached freedom to slave minds, has died grieving. The Ohio house where Sethe and her second daughter, 10-year-old Denver, live in 1873 is "spiteful. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this is the story of how former slaves, psychically crippled by years of outrage to their bodies and their humanity, attempt to "beat back the past," while the ghosts and wounds of that past ravage the present. Morrison's truly majestic fifth novel-strong and intricate in craft devastating in impact.
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