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In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s.

As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself."

Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition. --Gisele Toueg

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Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."

Her new novel has the same power, the same beauty.

At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes.

Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped.

Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it.

Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance)...that a child drowned in the river years ago...that there was a plague of robins when she first returned...

In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people, through forty years, up to the time of their bewildered realization that even more than they feared Sula, their pariah, they needed her.

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Fine work from a Nobel laureate.......2007-09-02

This novel tells the story of two life-long friends. Sula comes from a line of independent women and grows up to have contempt for the small-town morality of the Bottom, where she grew up, as well as an abiding hostility toward her mother and grandmother. Nell embraces the life of the community and tries to pursue a conventional life as wife and mother. In their future awaits an act of betrayal that will force them to reevaluate each other and their own lives. Toni Morrison's beautiful prose brings to life the community of the Bottom.

Sorry Toni...just not a fan..........2007-07-29

I know it is almost blasphemous to put down Toni Morrison's writing in this day and age. I just did not like this book. I found all the character's despicable and for that reason could never connect with any of them. This is a short book but I had to really push myself to finish the book. This was my first try at Toni Morrison and probably will be my last. I see where her prose is a big hit but if the plot and characters are no good then no amount of prose can save a book.
Sorry, no Toni Morrison fan here.

Very stupid book.......2007-07-07

I do not like this book at all. I had to read it for my college English class. It was a complete waste of my time. I got in arguements with the teacher about whether Sula is a heroine or not. She cheated with her best friend's husband and destroyed their marriage. She watched her mother burning in fire without doing anything to save her life. Her mother died of a severe burn. Sula is a very contemtible character to me. In addition, the language of this novel is very crude and uninnovative. For example, the author used descriptions such as "Christmas came down like a dull axe, too dull to cut through but too shabby to ignore." In the end of the book, Sula died in a hospital, a very pathetic death. No one came to see her except her best friend, whom she had betrayed before. I think books with stories like this should not be celebrated. Sula as the main character lacks moral standards and principles. I just could not believe that it has won the Pulitzer Prize. Please please please do not read it!!!

Hallucinatory.......2007-06-15

There are good storytellers,there are wannabies and there are real artists.Toni Morrison belongs to later category,truly gifted writter whose poetic expressions recalls fairy tale world of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (but just vaguely,she is very much her own woman and has nobody even approaching her league) and who knows how to create atmosphere full of sensuality,fear and hallucinations.Something in Morrison writting directly continues ancient line of folk tales but of course with a twist - she tells her stories from afro-american perspective - also notable is the way she weaves her characters into rich tapestry just to leave some threads in the air.Maybe this is the reason why I rate this otherwise excellent novel four out of five stars,since some unforgettable characters are unexplained,just touched lightly and disposed without a fuss just as we start to like them.Almost like Morrison prefers nature to her characters,the title one being black famme fatale,sort of Shug Avery but ultimately unexplained or beter said,without motives.All of her novels share this tendency and its easier to love Morrison because of her wonderful style than because of the stories themselves,often left maddeningly unexplained.As for the title of this novel,any of the characters here would have been contender to this book title since they all leave strong mark and Sula is just one of the many pictoresque faces,the way I see it,the friendship between two women just a small part of the story but not a main one.And I have to remark on squirmishness of some of reviewers here who find the novel "graphic" - maybe its my european background,but we found nothing unusual about honest writting about sex and death,they are both part of life experience and its testament to Morrison art that it doesnt sound contrived or forced,in fact she does it with such ease that I wasnt even aware about "graphic" parts until I read comments here.Reccomended.

Morrisons first novel.......2007-06-11

Sula is Morrison's classic first novel, and is enchanting. To understand the magic, I think you have to know the language only Morrison can write in. It's slang, and slippery phrases paint her scenes, and is what I truly like about her books, she gets you there in a different way than any other writer. Sula is the story of two friends, and their families, and the Bottoms that they live in. Sula is a pariah, and effects the lives of many. The toneless tragedy Morrison depicts is what can make her writing mysteriously captive, odd, beautiful, and even amazing. Sula is a story that floats along quickly, but the ease in painful natures won't soon slip out of your mind. It's a truly great book.

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ASIN: 1400033438
Release Date: 2004-06-08

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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.

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Fascinating book!.......2007-04-11

I loved this book. It was quite a page-turner. I'm a big fan of Toni Morrison and this book did not disappoint. I highly recommend it.

Review of Sula by Toni Morrison.......2007-04-02

I was assigned "Sula" by Toni Morrison as part of the requirements for my Literature by Women class. I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. Morrison is quite descriptive of her characters that are so colorful that is very easy to imagine them in your mind; almost as vivid as watching the scenes live.
The book is about several different people and it was quite a change from others styles of writing, how Morrison transitioned over time from one character to the next. The two main characters are two black females, Nel and Sula. The book travels through their lives from before they were born to after one of their deaths. Along the path we meet many different characters, family and friends, who live in their community of the Bottoms located near Medallion, Ohio.
The book begins in the late 1800's and continues until the 1960's. It begins just as slavery ends and ends in the midst of the civil rights movement. However the book does not go into detail about these topics it centers more on the daily lives of the people in this community and their relationships, whether it is friendships, courtships or family relationships.
We also learn just how different two young black women can be and still become the best of friends and even through adversity come back to each other and take care of one another when no one else will. We also learn that there is very little that the mothers in this book would not do for their children, up to including homicide to protect them, sometimes even from themselves.
I definitely recommend this book to any adult reader (It is not suitable for the young as it does include violence and sexual content). This definitely will encourage me to read other Toni Morrison topics.

Review of Sula.......2007-03-31

**contains some spoilers**

I wrote this literary for an English paper, which is why it's so long:

Literary Critique of "Sula"
Toni Morrison's "Sula" takes the reader on a turbulent ride of vague themes and inconsequential plot lines. But while there is much to be admonished in "Sula", there are a number of redeeming aspects; unfortunately the sum of these aspects do not come close to bringing salvation. Changing character focus and molding of a main character without the courtesy of proper exposition leave the reader of "Sula" feeling confused and cheated. By analyzing Toni Morrison's failings in the areas of character utilization, appealing plot, and general readability a greater appreciation for better written works can be had.

Toni Morrison's "Sula" is the story of a small close knit African American community set in Ohio in the early to mid 1900's. The hill top community known as the "Bottom" is the exhibit of many compelling characters and subject of trials and omens. The reader is introduced to the bottom at the end of it's existence and is then lead through time, on a journey to discover the late heart and soul of this community. The people in Sula include the crazy, the dying, the surviving, and the stones. The main characters, Sula Peace and Nel Wright, are the eventual focus of the story, but several supporting characters pervade throughout the novel.

"Sula" begins with an apt introduction of character and setting. Shadrack, Helene Wright, Eva and Hanna Peace, all key supporting characters, are all given a grand entrance into the story. The stories of Shadrack, Helene Wright, Eva and Hanna Peace are one of the redeeming qualities of "Sula". These characters serve as clues to the personalities and sentiments of the town and main characters, Nel and Sula. You learn about these characters; their struggles, their triumphs, and their growth. But, after spending nearly one third of the novel identifying with these supporting characters, you are taken to the relatively unspectacular world of two pubescent girls. This abrupt transition of character focus resulted in a dramatic loss of depth which the novel had enveloped you in. Dominant characters are downsized to the role of lack luster exposition for Sula and Nel. And a loss is had for the readers interest in the supporting characters who, for the most part, have told their story in it's entirety.

In the story of Eva Peace we learn of her struggle to keep her family alive and fed; a story which relates more to Hanna Peace than it does to Sula Peace or Nel Wright, and only vaguely to the development of Sula's personality by showing the type of people Sula was raised by. And when set into focus a second time, Eva's only contribution to the tale of Sula's main characters is granting the reader knowledge of Sula's emotional detachment. While this information is important to convey to the reader it is done via a very obtrusive and elaborate method in which, foreshadowed by a series of omens and dreams, Hanna Peace, Sula's mother, died. Such disjointed attempts at story progression and ultimately inconsequential plot lines plague "Sula".

In the story of Helene Wright, Morrison describes an incident on a train in which Helene is chastised and affected so deeply she resolves never to be made to feel a certain way again,

It was on that train , shuffling toward Cincinnati, that she resolved to be on guard--always. She wanted to make certain that no man ever looked at her that way. That no midnight eyes or marbled flesh would ever accost her and turn her to jelly. (Sula 22)

This rousing resolution begged for a revisiting by either Helene or her daughter Nel, but none ever came, again leaving the reader with no reason to maintain an interest.

By altering the story to rely more and more on the stories of Sula and Nel Morrison puts great pressure on the ability of these two girls to carry the strength of the story to it's conclusion, a pressure that buckled the initially strong stirrups of this story after some poor character development was relied on.

Sula takes the essence of her mother's neglect and promiscuity, her own emotional detachment, and he grand mother's willingness to go to extremes to get what she needs and returns to the Bottom as a person containing all those elements. Morrison provides no description of how this character was molded into the woman she returned as, she only provided the ingredients for the mold. This left the entirety of Sula's progression to adulthood as an unknown; something open to the imagination of the reader which was a critical flaw because it gave the impression that this progression was not important enough to describe. This combined with aforementioned disharmonies of the story made reading "Sula" a hurdling exercise in that the reader was made to fill in the gaps.

The final hurdle one must over come when reading "Sula" is deciphering the some of various meanings and symbolisms used throughout Sula which are made more apparent by the final words of the narrator.

In the end Toni Morrison's "Sula" fails to deliver on a complete and fulfilling novel. The combination of unharmonious story telling, ultimately irrelevant exposition, and uninspired use of otherwise fantastic characters served to squelch any remnants of affection left for this novel from its initial success.

Sula was a disappointment........2006-08-02

You know, I read daily, and I adore a wide variety of genres and styles. I began this book with an optimistic interest. Unfortunately, in the end, I found this book to be a bitter disappointment.

The book started very promisingly, with Ms. Morrison breathing a vivid life into her characters and her town. I was immediately invested in these characters; identifying with their emotions and their lives. However, I did find the writing to be extremely disjointed in some areas, which left me with a vague sense of dissatisfaction. As the book progressed, this disjointed style grew, as did my sense of dissatisfaction.

At some point, my initial interest and joy, turned into a sense of obligation. I never start a book without finishing it. Unfortunately, finishing this book became a chore. I grew more and more annoyed with Ms. Morrison's odd style of writing -- and the near-cliche oddities of the citizens who populated Ms. Morrison's town. (Apparently, the more oddities one can ascribe to one's characters, the better.) Overkill would be an understatement.

In the end, the novel that began so promisingly, left me feeling annoyed and bitterly disappointed. The last half of this novel felt rushed, and underdeveloped. Not because Ms. Morrison lacks talent, but because she apparently lacks follow-through.

Perhaps I wouldn't have been so disappointed with the development of this novel if I had not learned to care for these characters. It is not the fate of the characters which I find disappointing, it is the hurried and nonsensical style with which that fate was related. These characters deserved better.

Difficult yet rewarding.......2005-12-22

This is Toni Morrison's second novel, and she really hits her stride here. Like all her works, the writing is brilliant. The novel takes place in an all-black, small Ohio hill neighborhood called (ironically) Bottom from around 1917 to 1965. It's mainly about the blacks' relations with each other rather than with the whites, although racial discrimination is the all-pervasive larger context. The main theme is the friendship between two very different women, Sula and Nell. Sula's family (grandmother Eva, mother Hannah, and brothers deweys) also figures prominently. The novel has several episodes of seemingly senseless violence, including self-mutilation, and violence between parents and children. The main protagonist Sula is like no other character in world literature. Like a romantic heroine, she rebels against all social customs, revealing them in the process as simply conventions, not natural. She commits adultery, murder, and betrays her closest friends and family. When she dies, no one mourns. But while she deconstructs conventional morality, she does not completely discredit it, since the result of breaking taboos is not liberation, but destruction. There are no easy morals here. A difficult, even maddening and scandalous novel, it is deeply rewarding for readers who are willing to have all their preconceptions challenged.

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The Bluest Eye and Sula (Cliffs Notes)
Rosetta James , and Louisa S. Nye
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ASIN: 0822002515

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.

CliffsNotes on The Bluest Eye & Sula covers two of Toni Morrison’s unforgettable novels. The Bluest Eye, Morrison’s first novel, focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a lonely, young black girl living in Ohio in the late 1940s. Through Pecola, Morrison exposes the power and cruelty of white, middle-class American definitions of beauty.

Sula, Morrison’s second novel, focuses on a young black girl named Sula, who matures into a strong and determined woman in the face of adversity and the distrust, even hatred, of her by the black community in which she lives. Morrison delves into the strong female relationships and how these bonds nurture and threaten individual identity.

This study guide will take you beneath the surface of Morrison’s complex characters to uncover their universal themes. Helpful background information about the author brings these novels into context for even greater understanding. Other features that help you study include

Complete character lists
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Character analyses of major players
Glossary of difficult terms Critical essays
Review questions and essay topics

Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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Excellent guide.......2002-02-28

I read Sula and I needed a little help with the symbolism used in the book and Cliff Notes have always been an excellent guide.

The chapter's in "Sula" were seperated by years, and for each year there is a summary, commentary, and glossary for definitions of words and phrases. Also included is an introduction, character analyses, question, and essays for each book.

I haven't read "The Bluest Eye" yet but I do plan to, and its really great that both of these books are covered in this guide. I highly recommend this guide to anyone who wants a better understanding of one or both of these books.

A good help for additional understanding.......2000-06-23

These cliffs notes helped me very much studying this book for my high school english class. The parts that i didn't undertand reading the novel, the cliffs notes cleared up for me. If you're reading this book for school or for enjoyment, I would get the CliffsNotes for it just to supplement the reading.

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Sula
One of her best
Snapshot of Sula
Great Book for a Quiet Weekend
Inspired, brilliant, gloomy, and cheerless

Sula
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Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition. --Gisele Toueg

Book Description

Sula and Nel-both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town-meet when they are twelve. Through their girlhood years they share everything, until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the surface hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, bug-ridden flour. . .

In a clear, dark, resonant language, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people.

Beautifully read by Toni Morrison, Sula is an audio to treasure.

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Sula.......2004-05-14

I believe that this book really shows Toni Morrison's genius because she is able to combine several different themes into one book without it becoming confusing. I also like how she has main character for chapters, but gives justice to Sula throughout the book. I enjoyed how the book was metaphorical because it put importance on the different aspects of the book; like the characters, the role of religion, and the community as a whole. I truly enjoyed this book.

One of her best.......2003-12-08

Perhaps for the use of a few words in each line, an economy that always brings grandeur to a work of fiction, Toni Morrison makes one visit the black town of Medallion Hall and meet Sula and Nel, two young girls whose lives are going to take the rest of the book to explain. Not as the difficulty I found reading Jazz, as Gabriel Garcia Marquez`s No one writes to the Colonel and The Old Man and the Sea, Morrison shows a wonderful mastership of the written art. I recommend it as a tender, human book. Undoubtely one of Morrison`s best works.

Snapshot of Sula.......2002-03-28

Toni Morrison's Sula is a moving novel about knowing one's true self while dealing with issues such as race, family background, and relationships. Up in the Bottom, which is the hilly area of Medallion where the colored community inhabits, the freindship between conservatively ordinary Nel Wright and emotional yet independent Sula Peace develops and evolves greatly over time and with the events that they experience as they mature. Morrison's own life as a child growing up in a mildly-racist town is incorporated into the story and is an aspect which greatly enhances her work, as well as her unique writing style. She has the ability to mesmerize and captivate the reader with her intriguingly beautiful wording and flowing dialogues. Sometimes, though, it is easy to lose track of what is going on with Morrison's overly descriptive ways, but overall she is a fantastic writer and Sula is indeed a worthwhile piece.

Great Book for a Quiet Weekend.......2002-03-12

I had a great time reading this book. Saturday morning with a cup of tea I sat down with this book and didn't get up until I had finished it. It's easy reading and a good story. You can really see and feel the characters.

Inspired, brilliant, gloomy, and cheerless.......2002-02-07

For those of you who find it difficult to listen to books on cassette, Sula is an easy listen. Toni Morrison captures the rhythm of her own writing with gentle and soothing tones. Her prose is both brilliant and disturbing.

The novel tells the story of Sula, Nel, their families, and the African American community known as the Bottom, which is actually on an infertile hilltop. In the opening, she captures the insanity of Shadrack, a shell-shocked soldier, who cannot bear the perceived deformity of his hands. Elsewhere, Sula's grandmother fears that Sula's helpless drug-addicted uncle is trying to crawl back up in her womb. The images of Nel's loneliness and isolation at one point in the book are remarkably communicated. There is little joy, love and happiness found anywhere in Sula-it is an exploration of various levels of despair. Even the relative joy of childhood play is used only to contrast with the guilt and shame of Nel and Sula causing another child's death. Not a single positive male/female relationship exists in the book. A breakup nearly destroys Nell, and Sula's death comes when she finally opens up her heart.

An especially interesting image is when Sula becomes a Leviticus-chapter-sixteen scapegoat for the Bottom. The entire community seems to place the weight of their sins on her and feel a little relief to their own self-righteous ways, and even grow closer to one another. All this time, Sula has a birthmark on her face that keeps getting darker and darker. The community is also brought together by National Suicide Day, instituted by Shadrack, the insane soldier. Again, a small amount of joy is contrasted with the great tragedy of its last celebration.

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Loners describes a unique group of solitary children who were unable to adapt to the social and educational demands of school life. Sula Wolff discusses the nature and origins of their difficulties and compares them with autism, Asperger's syndrome and schizoid/schizotypal personality disorders.

Wolff illustrates her study with case histories of children and adults over a twenty year period, as well as with discusssions of the apparent eccentricities of some exceptional people who catch the public eye. The book shows the necessity of the clinical recognition of the syndrome. Loners will help psychiatrists towards a realistic approach to the treatment of affected people, both children and adults.

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Asperger's Disorder and the Schizoid Personality.......2001-09-08

This book is certainly outstanding and it the only book besides _Shadow Syndromes_ which clearly confronts the topic of the relationship between Autism Spectrum Conditions (particularly Asperger's Disorder) and the Schizoid Personality. While some researchers have proclaimed the two to be separate diagnoses (e.g., Tantam), Wolff proceeds to give a detailed account of a group of children who were labeled 'Schizoid Personality of Childhood.' Furthermore, she extensively reviews the psychiatric literature in examining such children previous to Hans Asperger's account of Autistic Personality Disorder of Childhood, overviewing the evolution of the Schizoid Personality diagnosis. Wolff especially stresses the inadequacy of the current Asperger's diagnostic criteria because it often fails to include minimally impaired/gifted 'Schizoids'. Finally, Wolff expresses her conclusion: the majority of her Schizoid children, although many do fit the current DSM-IV/ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for Schizoid Personality Disorder, would be more appropriately accounted for as having mild Asperger's Syndrome with some Schizotypal traits; also, although there was some overlap between High-Functioning Autistic children and the Asperger/Schizoid children, a distinction was made between the two groups.

Loners: Schizoid or Autistic?.......1999-07-08

Austism, schizoid personality traits, what do they have in common? Are they one in the same, with those who exhibit schizoid personalty traits simply being high functioning individuals with autism? Or are they discrete diagnostic entities, not simply the same condition but only at different ends of the "autistic spectrum"? Sula Wolff provides a rich discussion of people who by many are labelled "asocial," providing anecdotal accounts with children seen in her own practice, as well as a wealth of information from formal studies. This book should be in the library of anyone who has an interest in children who do not seem to fit into society and by those who are interested in the subject of individuals with high functioning autism.

Song, Dance, and Customs of Peasant Poland

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Song, Dance, and Customs of Peasant Poland
Sula Benet
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Great Book - great content - new edition needed!.......2007-04-04

I was really impressed by this book. Frankly, I liked it better than "Polish Customs and Tradition" book by Hodorowicz, which is the most known book on the subject of Polish tradition.

The author has not only a deep and comprehensive knowledge of Polish peasant culture (since she was born in Poland) but she also writes about it in a very interesting way. She is a great observer and she is in love with Polish culture. I could feel it!

The book is divided into four major parts. It starts with the general information about Polish peasants and their culture, then it goes through the "Cycle of the Seasons" which describes life and festivities connected with different holidays through the year. The next part "The parts of the whole" explains regional differences, talks briefly about all Polish regions. The final fourth part "The home circle" talks about the events and celebrations which are not necessarily related to the seasons - like the birth, marriage, funerals etc.

The book deals with Poland before and after World War II when the majority of Poles lived still in villages. This makes it even more interesting since it relates to this time in the history where the peasants were still not spoiled by modern civilization!

I really recommend it!!!

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Sula
Toni Morrison
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Trisba & Sula: A Miskitu Folktale from Nicaragua

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