not a light summer read

Beloved: A Novel by Toni Morrison (PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1987) looks like it might be a light beach book - something to fritter away the hours of a summer afternoon. Yet, there is a Contemporary Literary Views Book, Bloom's Notes (PS 3563 .O8749 B4378 1999) edited by Harold Bloom that delves into the deepest meaning of the story.

From the book jacket: "It is the story - set in post Civil War Ohio - of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad...."

Check out both books and see for yourself if it's a beach book or a literary classic!