Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sulais a work that overflows with life.
'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else — they're transcendent, all of them. You’ll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama
'You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else — they're transcendent, all of them. You’ll be glad you read them.'--Barack Obama
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- ISBN: 9780307388131
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- Title: Sula
- Author: Toni Morrison
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- The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison 'who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality'.
- Sula is a 1973 novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, her second to be published after The Bluest Eye (1970). Plot summary. The Bottom is a. Sula Peace: the childhood best friend of Nel. From the text' and therefore makes them active participants in the meaning-making process.
- That's when she wrote Sula, a novel that would bolster her reputation as a phenomenal talent in the world of American letters. It was nominated for the National Book Award, and the world began to be aware of the force of nature that is Toni Morrison. The novel tells the story of a friendship between two Black women: Nel and the titular Sula.
- Fiction > African American
- Fiction > Genre Fiction
- Fiction > Literary Fiction
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In The Press
“Extravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter.” --The New York Times
“Exemplary. . . . The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy.” --Newsweek
“In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison’s originality and power emerge.” --The Nation
“Enchanting. . . . Powerful.” --Chicago Daily News
“Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” --The New York Review of Books
“Sulais one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time. . . . [Morrison] is a major talent.” —Elliot Anderson, Chicago Tribune
“As mournful as a spiritual and as angry as a clenched fist . . . written in language so pure and resonant that it makes you ache.” --Playboy
“In the first ranks of our living novelists.” --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Toni Morrison’s gifts are rare: the re-creation of the black experience in America with both artistry and authenticity.” --Library Journal
“Should be read and passed around by book-lovers everywhere.” --Los Angeles Free Press
“Exemplary. . . . The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy.” --Newsweek
“In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison’s originality and power emerge.” --The Nation
“Enchanting. . . . Powerful.” --Chicago Daily News
“Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” --The New York Review of Books
“Sulais one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time. . . . [Morrison] is a major talent.” —Elliot Anderson, Chicago Tribune
“As mournful as a spiritual and as angry as a clenched fist . . . written in language so pure and resonant that it makes you ache.” --Playboy
“In the first ranks of our living novelists.” --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Toni Morrison’s gifts are rare: the re-creation of the black experience in America with both artistry and authenticity.” --Library Journal
“Should be read and passed around by book-lovers everywhere.” --Los Angeles Free Press
Sula Toni Morrison Online Text Messages
About The Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
Sula Toni Morrison Online Text Free
She too sleeps with only the husbands of other women. Sula has never witnessed a healthy relationship between a man and a woman. This is regarded by the community as terrible. Sula uses the men she sleeps with for pleasure, taking no consideration as to how the men feel. She refuses to have such patriarchal relationships as Hannah did. Hannah may indeed have received pleasure from the men she slept with but she remained the submissive participant in her relations. 'Hannah rubbed no edges, made no demands, made the man feel as though he were complete and wonderful just as he was- he didn’t need fixing...' (p 2012). Sula, on the other hand, has a need to feel in control right down to the mechanics of her affairs. 'And there was the utmost irony and outrage in lying under someone, in a position of surrender, feeling her own abiding strength and limitless power.' (p2048). She not only took sex from men as pleasure, but sought out to claim power over them. 'Sula was trying them out and discarding them without any excuse the men could swallow.' (p2044). This made the women upset and furthered their hatred for Sula. Sula had power by sleeping with these very same men who held power over submissive wives. The town regards all of Sula’s actions as evil. They called her a 'roach' and a 'bitch', but above that spread a nasty rumor that she slept with white men. 'There was nothing lower she could do, nothing filthier.' (p2043). Though it is mentioned in