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Written by one of the most important novelistsin America today, Sula is a rich and moving novel that traces the lives of two black heroines--from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
Toni Morrison is Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University. She has written seven novels, and has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
awisehart, December 16, 2009 (view all comments by awisehart)
This is a very powerful novel, with richly imagined, complex characters; a compelling and nuanced story of a friendship. Morrison explores heavy themes of racism and sexism in ways that are never cliche or overly simplified. Definitely recommended!
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Written by one of the most important novelistsin America today, Sula is a rich and moving novel that traces the lives of two black heroines--from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
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