Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
Hearing an author read her own work creates a special ambiance. To hear Morrison read a short, unabridged novel published 24 years ago, to hear in her voice how much she still values the writing, well, who could ask for more? The only drawback is that Morrison, while very much in tune with her characters, often lets her voice drop to a whisper, making these tapes difficult to listen to while driving and almost impossible on a highway with the window open. On the page, Sula is one of her more clearly defined novels‘the friendship and later hatred that envelopes the lives of two black women from "the bottom"‘but the imagistic nature of the writing means listeners may have to replay passages if they want to follow the action. A small price to pay for a masterpiece.‘Rochelle Ratner, formerly with "Soho Weekly News," New York
Stunning... Everything Morrison does is brilliant. -- Jill Dawson *
Waitrose Weekend *
Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of
love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter * New
York Times *
Morrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and
isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers,
warriors, witches and story-tellers... One of the most compelling
writers at work today * The Times *
Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a
divine being, because luck and genetics don't seem to come close to
explaining her * Guardian *
In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power
emerge * The Nation *
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