Reviews
"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 From the Trade Paperback edition., "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 "Sulais 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 From the Trade Paperback edition., "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 From the Trade Paperback edition., "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, "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
