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Sula

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Sula

Auteur(s): Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward - introduction
Narrateur(s): Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. • With a new introduction by Jesmyn Ward.

“Extravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive.” —The New York Times

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness.
Classiques Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Récits initiatiques

Ce que les critiques en disent

“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

Featured Article: 10 Best Toni Morrison Audiobooks for Discovering an Icon

Few authors are as universally beloved as Toni Morrison, and for good reason. The Lorain, Ohio native dominated the literary scene from the moment she burst onto the stage in 1970, with her debut novel The Bluest Eye. A packed career of novels, poetry, short fiction, children's books, nonfiction and plays followed, along with a stack of awards to boot. A Nobel Prize? A Pulitzer Prize? The first female African American editor in the history of celebrated publishing company Random House? You name it, Toni Morrison has won it and done it. With such an incredible body of work in audio, it can be difficult to know where to begin. For longtime fans of Morrison and newcomers alike, we’ve gathered a selection of some of her greatest. Here are the best Toni Morrison audiobooks to add to your library today.

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The text- poetic. Toni Morrison's voice - smooth as honey. The plot details - sometimes shocking. The characters - Bea, Hannah, Sula , Nel, Shadrack bizarre but relatable.

Engrossing

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very soft...adjust the volume to hear. loud ,assertive turn down the volume. seems i should be honored to hear the authors own voice but the variation was distracting.

i found the sound of the readers voice troublesome

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After listening to Sula I truly understood why Toni Morrison is one of America’s greats. I don’t know how she beautifully fit an entire world/story in less than 200 pages. She’s a master of her craft

Toni Toni Toni

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Favourite Morrison book so far. Lovely to hear her voice while I read along. The music at the end takes you out of it though which is a shame. It is very funny at least.

One of her most powerful novels beautifully read!

Hell yea

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I had high hopes for a novel by Toni Morrison read by her. But she reads very unevenly—changes in pitch and volume, all with a soporific drawl. The story is hard to follow and keeps reintroducing characters with languid descriptions but no clear purpose in the narrative. Certainly not Morrison’s best.

Boring and uneven

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