9780394480442 - Sula von Morrison, Toni (21 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Later prt. 8vo, 174 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Zustand: FINE. Later printing. Second novel by this Nobel prize winning writer, originally published in 1974, the story of the friendship of two young women, who met as twelve year old girls - both smart, both poor, both black - in a small Ohio town, but whose lives took very different paths. 174 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. James L. McGuire (Author photograph) (illustrator). Third Printing [stated]. [12], 174, [6] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. DJ has some wear, soiling, and chip at lower front corner. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. She earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. Morrison became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her work Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. She received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020. Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal-or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life. Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her second to be published after The Bluest Eye (1970). The novel begins when the construction of a golf course is announced, the site being the destroyed remnants of what used to be the Bottom. The Bottom is a black neighborhood on the hill above the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio. In the first section of the novel, the origin story of the Bottom is revealed as well as how it got its name: a white farmer promised freedom and a piece of Bottom land to his slave if he would perform some difficult chores for him. Upon completion, the farmer regrets his end of the bargain. Freedom was easy, the farmer had no objection to that, but he did not want to give up the land. He tells the slave he was very sorry that he had to give him valley land, for he had hoped to give him a piece of the bottom land. The slave said he thought valley land was bottom land, to which the master said land on the hill, not the valley, was bottom land, rich and fertile". This is obviously untrue, but it is the story that black people told to illuminate the fact that white people's racism and lies have created this topsy turvy world in which up is down and down is up. "The white people lived on the rich valley floor. and the blacks populated the hills above it, taking small consolation in the fact that every day they could literally look down on the white folks". The story is organized by chronological chapters labeled with years. In "1919," the first named character, handsome Shadrack, a previous resident of the Bottom, returns from World War I a shattered man, suffering from shell shock or PTSD and unable to accept the world he used to belong in. Living in the outskirts of town and attempting to create order in his life, he develops methods such as keeping his shack in hospital-grade neatness. Another method is the invention of National Suicide Day, which exists on January 3 to counter and compartmentalize the constant death he saw at war, and is essentially invitation for anyone that plans to die within the next year, to die on that day. Never assimilating, he curses even at children and whites, has regular acts of indecency, but also does odd jobs and sells fish to the townspeople and is begrudgingly woven into the urban fabric, which is this town's version of acceptance.

Zustand: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 26 (holiday sale item)* first edition, first printing, inscribed by Toni Morrison to Frieda Walker, her mother's best friend, and signed Chloe (Morrison's given name), with Toni Morrison in parentheses and with the inscription dated 2.16.1974; 174 pp., hardcover, moderate foxing to the bottom and fore edges, else very good in a good only dust jacket; the edge-worn, price-clipped dust jacket has clear tape repairs to the top and bottom margins, both to the face and inner surface. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 174 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good dust jacket. Spine pictorial with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$5.95." Creasing along edges, and toning to rear cover. Top edge of textblock dyed yellow, though faded. Interior pages clean. Inscribed by Toni Morrison on half-title page reading, "For Dick / Best wishes / Toni Morrison." DL consignment. Shelved Case 7. 1392716. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First edition. First printing of this story of friendship, duality, and perceptions of power and belonging - Toni Morrison's second novel. 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). 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. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Second novel by this Nobel prize winning writer, the story of the friendship of two young women, who met as twelve year old girls - both smart, both poor, both black - in a small Ohio town, but whose lives took very different paths. A pre-publication copy -laid in is a short typed note from a Knopf representative to a New York based film agency dated in November 1973, two months before the book was published, saying that "Here is the copy you asked to see . . . It will be published in January" and emphasizing that this is not an official submission. 174 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. Very near fine in a like dustjacket - a tight copy with bright orange covers, and an attractive dustjacket with just a little toning to the white background on the flaps and back cover.