First printing of this story of friendship, duality, and perceptions of power and belonging – Toni Morrison's second novel.
Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Price: $750.00
"I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself."
The relationship between Sula – a girl who eschews any and all expectations of gender and morality – and her friend Nel forms the center of this novel, and the catalyst for a community's self-destruction. "[I]t is the fact that Sula has not been tamed or broken by the exigencies of heterosexual family life which most galls" the residents of the Bottom when Sula leaves the community for 10 years, to return with a college education but without a husband (Smith, 24). In her field-defining "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," Barbara Smith calls SULA a prime example of the "actual dimensions" to be found by applying feminist and lesbian lenses to the story (23).
Read more: Barbara Smith, "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," The Radical Teacher no. 7.
First edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth boards with gilt lettering. Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Wendell Minor. Green topstain, fore-edge machine-deckle. 174 pages. Jacket with a bit of edgewear, tiny closed tear to head of spine; a hint of sunning to spine. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Clean and bright.
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