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SULA
by Morrison, Toni
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0394480449
- ISBN 13
- 9780394480442
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this story of friendship, duality, and perceptions of power and belonging - Toni Morrison's second novel. The relationship between Sula - a girl who eschews any and all expectations of gender and morality - and her friend Nel forms the center of this novel, and the catalyst for a community's self-destruction. "[I]t is the fact that Sula has not been tamed or broken by the exigencies of heterosexual family life which most galls" the residents of the Bottom when Sula leaves the community for 10 years, to return with a college education but without a husband (Smith, 24). In her field-defining "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," Barbara Smith calls SULA a prime example of the "actual dimensions" to be found by applying feminist and lesbian lenses to the story (23). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth boards with gilt lettering. Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Wendell Minor. Green topstain, fore-edge machine-deckle. 174 pages. Jacket with a bit of edgewear, tiny closed tear to head of spine; a hint of sunning to spine. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Clean and bright.
Synopsis
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, Sula is a work that overflows with life.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45879
- Title
- SULA
- Author
- Morrison, Toni
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394480449
- ISBN 13
- 9780394480442
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,1970s,African American author,African American subject,US American,Woman Author,Feminism
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