Toni Morrison: Sula

It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

TONI MORRISON

Sula

Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey.

ALSO BY TONI MORRISON

FICTION

Love

Paradise

Jazz

Beloved

Tar Baby

Song of Solomon

The Bluest Eye

NONFICTION

The Dancing Mind

Playing in the Dark:

Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

ACCLAIM FOR TONI MORRISON’S

Sula

“ 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

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JUNE 2004

Copyright © 1973, 2004, and renewed 2002 by Toni Morrison

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1974.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Morrison, Toni.

Sula.

I. Title.

PZ4.M883Su [PS3563.08749]

813'.5'4

73-7278

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eISBN: 978-0-307-38813-1

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