Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter * New York Times * Morrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers, warriors, witches and story-tellers... One of the most compelling writers at work today * The Times * Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics dont seem to come close to explaining her * Guardian * In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power emerge * The Nation * Sula is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time... [ Morrison] is a major talent * Chicago Tribune * Full of beauty, eccentricity, bustle, laughter, sensuality, generous affection Toni Morrisons work is strikingly individual * Time Literary Supplement * Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature * New York Review of Books * Exemplary... The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy * Newsweek * Enchanting...Powerful * Chicago Daily News * 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 *