Oprah: 46 and Out
by Daisy Maryles -- Publishers Weekly, 4/8/2002
On April 5, Oprah announced Toni Morrison's Sula as her 46th pick (and last; see News). This marks the fourth selection for the Nobel Prize-winning author (the others were Song of Solomon, in 1996; Paradise, 1998; and The Bluest Eye, 2000). Originally published by Knopf in 1973, Sula was released as a Plume paperback in 1982. Knopf has reprinted 200,000 copies (and dropped the price from $26 to $15), and Plume has just shipped an additional 630,000 copies. (P.S. Another Oprah selection from Plume just might get another shot at the national charts: Lifetime TV's movie version of We Were the Mulvaneys, starring Blythe Danner and Beau Bridges, will have its first showing tonight. The Joyce Carol Oates novel, a 2001 club choice, spent 23 weeks on PW's list.)
With reporting by Dick Donahue
