
SULA
Morrison Toni
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Dans l'Ohio des années 20, deux petites filles noires s'inventent ensemble une vie meilleure. Mais l'âge venant, tandis que Nel se plie à son rôle de mère et d'épouse, Sula choisit de conquérir ailleurs sa liberté. Pour tous, elle devient la scandaleuse, la dévoyée. Et doit se défendre, quarante ans plus tard, contre une société soumise à la vérité des autres..." Sula, c'est l'histoire d'une amitié féminine, puis d'un désamour ; le portrait d'une paria qui invente avant l'heure, et pour son seul usage, la liberté brûlante de la femme moderne. "Manuel Carcassonne - Le Figaro littéraireTraduit de l'anglais (États-Unis)par Pierre AlienPrix Pullitzer 1987 pour Beloved / Prix Nobel de littérature 1993
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| Nombre de pages | 189 |
|---|---|
| Date de parution | 19/05/1994 |
| Poids | 105g |
| Largeur | 110mm |
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| EAN | 9782264021052 |
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| Titre | SULA |
| Auteur | Morrison Toni |
| Editeur | 10 X 18 |
| Largeur | 110 |
| Poids | 105 |
| Date de parution | 19940519 |
| Nombre de pages | 189,00 € |
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MORRISON TONIExtrait I124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were its only victims. The grandmother, Baby Suggs, was dead, and the sons, Howard and Buglar, had run away by the time they were thirteen years old--as soon as merely looking in a mirror shattered it (that was the signal for Buglar); as soon as two tiny band prints appeared in the cake (that was it for Howard). Neither boy waited to see more; another kettleful of chickpeas smoking in a heap on the floor; soda crackers crumbled and strewn in a line next to the doorsill. Nor did they wait for one of the relief periods: the weeks, months even, when nothing was disturbed. No. Each one fled at once--the moment the house committed what was for him the one insult not to be borne or witnessed a second time. 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