"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