 Sulaby Toni
Morrison ~ [Paperback:
Oprah
edition (April 5, 2002)]
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Toni
Morrison~ Oprah Book Club® Selection,
May 2002:
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest
Eye
(1970), was
acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard
said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech
and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." Her new novel has the same power, the same beauty.
In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature,
tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young
adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a
wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula
Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big
city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s.
As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find
in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and
imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has
chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to
defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of
the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary
friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old
friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with
whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula
had always been a conversation with herself."
Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of
friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition.
--Gisele Toueg |
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 Fall
on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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~ Oprah Book Club® Selection,
January 2002:A sprawling saga about
five generations of a family from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Fall
on Your Knees is the impressive first fiction from Canadian playwright
and actor Ann-Marie MacDonald. This epic tale of family history, family
secrets, and music centers on four sisters and their relationships with
each other and with their father. Set in the coal-mining communities of
Nova Scotia in the early part of this century, the story also shifts to
the battlefields of World War I and the jazz scene of New York City in the
1920s. ~ More
from Ann-Marie MacDonald
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