Sula

Zusatztext “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 “ Sula is 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 Informationen zum Autor Toni Morrison Klappentext 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. "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 ObamaIn that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood. It stood in the hills above the valley town of Medallion and spread all the way to the river. It is called the suburbs now, but when black people lived there it was called the Bottom. One road, shaded by beeches, oaks, maples and chestnuts, connected it to the valley. The beeches are gone now, and so are the pear trees where children sat and yelled down through the blossoms to passersby. Generous funds have been allotted to level the stripped and faded buildings that clutter the road from Medallion up to the golf course. They are going to raze the Time and a Half Pool Hall, where feet in long tan shoes once pointed down from chair rungs. A steel ball will knock to dust Irene's Palace of Cosmetology, where women used to lean their heads back on sink trays and doze while Irene lathered Nu Nile into their hair. Men in khaki work clothes will pry loose the slats of Reba's Grill, where the owner cooked in her hat because she couldn't remember the ingredients without it. There will be nothing left of the Bottom (the footbridge that crossed the river is already gone), but perhaps it is just as well, since it wasn't a town anyway: just a neighborhood where on quiet days people in valley houses could hear singing sometimes, banjos sometimes, and, if a valley man happened to have business up in those hills--collecting rent or insurance payments--he might see a dark woman in a flowered dress doing a bit of cakewalk, a bit of black bottom, a bit of "messing around" to the lively notes of a mouth organ. Her bare feet would raise the sa...

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.06.2004
• EAN: 9781400033430
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-3343-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 202 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature