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Sula (1973)

di Toni Morrison

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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. This brilliantly imagined novel brings us the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio.
Nel and Sula's 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 betrayalâ??or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with li
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Like most people who've earned a degree in literature in the United States since 1990, I've read Toni Morrison's "Beloved" about three times. I really like parts of that one -- mostly the bit where the characters retell their past experiences or when the author goes head-to-head with William Faulkner. Much of the rest of that book seems a bit stagy to me, though, a bit stiff.

So Sula surprised me a little. It's a much looser affair than "Beloved", and while I can't call it a happy book, necessarily, it's got more room for eccentricity and its own sort of humor. Its lens is also a bit wider than that other novel's, too. It takes place over about seventy years -- one human lifespan -- and Morrison takes as her subject the entire black community living in the town of Medallion, Ohio, not just Nell and Sula, the two women at the novel's center. So we hear about war veterans that didn't come back quite right and pool halls and candy stores and small-town gossip even while Morrison works out some of the themes that she'd express more fully in "Beloved." We hear a lot about the characters' houses and their bodies and the all-consuming sense of emptiness some of them contend with. I don't know if I can say that "Sula" is as successful or as ambitious as "Beloved" is: the former is due for a re-read. But for a novel that clocks at just under two hundred pages, it feels marvelously rich and complete, and features many examples of real high-quality prose, the stuff that separates the pretenders from the contenders, when all is done. This is an astonishingly polished and impressive performance, especially considering it was just Morrison's second novel. Recommended, especially if you couldn't understand why "Beloved" got such great reviews. ( )
  TheAmpersand | Feb 28, 2024 |
One of Toni Morrison's early novels, "Sula" displays flashes of the brilliance of depth to come in "Song of Solomon" and "Beloved". An uncompromising and perplexing portrait of the realtionship between, Nel and Sula, two black girls/women in early 20th century rural Ohio. Tinged with violence and sorrow, and mysticism, it is of course, beautifully written. ( )
  Octavia78 | Jul 26, 2023 |
By turns lyrical and stark, rooted and fantastical, delicate and painful; Sula is a haunting novel. This is the story of two young girls, best friends, who grow to be very different women. More than that, though, it's the story of a vibrant community.

Nel and Sula are born and come of age in The Bottom (the black community in the hills above the richer, white town of Medallion). Following their lives we bear witness to the complex tapestry of the town which is held together by the shared pain and triumphs of its inhabitants.

Morrison weaves a vibrant tapestry around The Bottom within which the characters leap from the pages. These are real, whole, compelling characters with profound strengths and deep flaws. They wear their pain and loss with honour while moving on through life as best they can. Like all of us, they are simply human.

Toni Morrison has always taken my breath away and this was no exception. ( )
  Jess.Stetson | Apr 4, 2023 |
Sula and Nel are friends who grow up in an impoverished black community in Ohio in the 1920s. After their involvement in a tragic event, which they keep secret, their friendship begins to disintegrate. Nel pursues a traditional life, while Sula follows an alternative path. Sula’s actions are seen as immoral and Nel begins to feel a sense of superiority, which is reinforced by the townspeople. Themes include motherhood, friendship, racism, classism, and shame. Morrison’s writing is beautiful even though the topics and events are often horrific. In the end, there is a ray of hope, as one of the characters arrives at understanding and acceptance. I can appreciate the literary merit of this book, while also have difficulties with some of the more gruesome subject matter. ( )
  Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 |
A story that takes place in the early part of the 20th century, in a segregated black community outside of a small town in Ohio, it's full of Morrison's unique descriptions that allows the reader to see and smell the descriptions in their mind's eye: The loamy Earth, the humid air, the different shades of the resident's skins. Vivid characters populate this tale: Eva, whose husband walked out on her and their three kids. Eva's grandchild Sula is the protagonist. Mental disorders, poverty, and men who create and abandon their children make this story full of a pathos that the reader will feel. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time... [Morrison] is a major talent

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaChicago Tribune, Elliot Anderson
 
Haunting, complex tale of friendship best for older teens.

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaCommon Sense Media, Terreece Clarke
 
Should be read and passed around by book-lovers everywhere

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaLOS ANGELES FREE PRESS
 
Toni Morrison's gifts are rare: the re-creation of the black experience in America with both artistry and authenticity

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaLIBRARY JOURNAL
 
In the first ranks of our living novelists

aggiunto da vibesandall | modificaST LOUIS POST DISPATCH
 

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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Morrison, Toniautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Alien, PierreTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Bertolotti, AntonioTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Dorsman-Vos, W.A.Traduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
McGuire, James LFotografoautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Minor, WendellImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Polz, KarinTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Vink, NettieTraduttoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Wood, OwenImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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"Nobody knew my rose of the world but me.... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart." -The Rose Tattoo
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In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from the roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood.
Un tempo, là dove hanno sradicato le macchie di dulcamara e i cespugli di more per far posto al "Campo da golf Città do Medallion", esisteva un quartiere.
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. This brilliantly imagined novel brings us the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio.
Nel and Sula's 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 betrayalâ??or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with li

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