Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
“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
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