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Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Novels Fiction Domestic fiction Novels (texts) Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Toni Morrison |
ISBN: | 0394480449 9780394480442 1400033438 9781400033430 9780375415357 0375415351 9780452283862 0452283868 |
OCLC Number: | 1139520775 |
Notes: | "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc." |
Description: | 174 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Toni Morrison. |
Abstract:
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines--from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation. The one, Nel Wright, chooses to stay in the place of her birth, to marry, to raise a family, to become a pillar of the tightly knit black community. The other, Sula Peace, rejects all that Nel has accepted. She escapes to college, submerges herself in city life, and when she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel, a mocker, a wanton sexual seductress. Both women must suffer the consequences of their choices; both must decide if they can afford to harbor the love they have for each other; and both combine to create an unforgettable rendering of what it means and costs to exist and survive as a black woman in America. -- Publisher description
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