Product Description

Of all the events in Oprah Winfrey's life, none has affected her powerfully as playing the part of Sethe, the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past, in Jonathan Demme's film of Toni Morrison's Pulizer Prize-winning novel - coming from Touchstone Pictures in Fall 1998. Oprah fell in love with the book when it was first published in 1988, and instantly became determined to deliver this powerful story to film herself. But making the movie was something even more profound than she might have imagined, and JOURNEY TO THE BELOVED is her own emotional account of that experience.

With Oprah's heartfelt words and the evocative images of Ken Regan, JOURNEY TO THE BELOVED is an elegant book that will interest fans of Oprah, of Toni Morrison, and of fine filmmaking. Accompanying Oprah's personal journals and thoughts about the Beloved experience is a foreword by Jonathan Demme and a chorus of voices, from Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, and Beah Richards. The result is a tribute to a courageous work of art, expressed as only Oprah can express it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #252956 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

We love Oprah
What needs to be said? The book is great, the movie is great and this book is fabulous because now we can read what Oprah was going through, during the shoot of the movie. Oprah we love you!!

THE ULTITMATE BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN SLAVERY
THE STORY OF OPRAH'S DREAM TO WRITE THIS BOOK,BECAME EQUALLY AS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO READ AS IT DID FOR HER TO WRITE.I AM IN AW OF BLACK PEOPLE EVERY WHERE,WHO ARE ABLE TO FEEL THESE FEELING CONCERNING THERE HERATAGE,AND BE ABLE TO TELL THE WORLD IN A BOOK WITH THE LOVE IN WHICH SHE WROTE.I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR EVER SO LONG TO SEE THIS MOVIE,AND HAVE JUST ORDERED THE BOOK.I CANT BELIEVE,MY BOOK WILL MOVE ME AS OPRAHS JOURNAL DID,BUT I CAN HOPE. THANK YOU OPRAH.AUNT GIN

The best of its ilk
I always forget the conventional wisdom about books and the movies they inspire. Are the books always better than the movies (e.g., "Dune", "Lolita") or are the movies always better than the books (i.e., "The Ice Storm", "Ten Commandments"). The people at Hyperion have started a whole new category: Books about the making of a movie from a novel that are better than the movie and the novel themselves. "Journey to Beloved" is a fantastic insightful look (wonderful photos) at (I paraphase Zefferelli here) the transformation of one work of art into another work of art. I admit I wasn't a huge fan of "Beloved" in either form, but this book was a lot of fun nonetheless. I never had to ask myself what was going on--a marked change from my bout with the novel years ago.