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  • Published: 15 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784876463
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.00

Sula




Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NAMWALI SERPELL, AUTHOR OF THE OLD DRIFT

As young girls in a poor but close-knit community, Nel and Sula are inseparable. But their paths as adults couldn't be more different: while Nel settles in town to raise a family, Sula escapes for the progressive ideals of the big city. When Sula reappears ten years later, she comes face to face with a community whose values are at odds with her fierce individualism and rebellious ways. Reunited, Nel and Sula must confront the consequences of their actions and the dreadful secret they shared in childhood.

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. Terrifying, comic and tragic, Sula overflows with love and life, friendship and betrayal.

  • Published: 15 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784876463
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.00

About the author

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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Praise for Sula

Stunning… Everything Morrison does is brilliant.

Jill Dawson, Waitrose Weekend

Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter

New York Times

Morrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers, warriors, witches and story-tellers... One of the most compelling writers at work today

The Times

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Guardian

In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power emerge

The Nation

Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time... [Morrison] is a major talent

Chicago Tribune

Full of beauty, eccentricity, bustle, laughter, sensuality, generous affection… Toni Morrison’s work is strikingly individual

Time Literary Supplement

Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature

New York Review of Books

Exemplary... The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy

Newsweek

Enchanting...Powerful

Chicago Daily News

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