Song of SolomonAn official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection With this brilliantly imagined New York Times bestselling novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world. |
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User Review - ThomasPluck - LibraryThingThanks to everyone who recommended I read this next. fanciful and heartbreaking, a family history and late bildungsroman, just an amazing read full of gripping characters being terrible to each other ... Read full review
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User Review - scottjpearson - LibraryThingHave you ever felt like your life is an unsolved mystery, full of dispersed, broken parts that need reassembling? Have you ever felt like a sense of truth and order – indeed a sense of God – was far ... Read full review
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| Title | Song of Solomon Vintage International |
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0307388123, 9780307388124 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / African American / General Fiction / Coming of Age Fiction / Literary |
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