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Sula.
by Morrison, Toni
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Dan Sieber Toni Morrison." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. An exceptional example. Nominated for the National Book Award, Sula exemplifies the mysteries of death, friendship, and poverty, and its rare economy in writing is met with critical acclaim and popular success, establishing Morrison as one of the 20th century's most significant novelists. Sara Blackburn wrote that Morrison's extravagantly beautiful, doomed characters are locked in a world where hope for the future is a foreign commodity, yet they are enormously, achingly alive." And Morrison's writing is "[e]xtravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter" (The New York Times).
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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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138064
- Title
- Sula.
- Author
- Morrison, Toni
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Nobel, signed first edition, Toni Morrison
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