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 - FatimaCastelao - LibraryThingSong of Solomon is about the past, present, and future of an extended family whose ancestors were slaves. The character names were brilliant. The novel has many layers of meaning and contexts in which ... Read full review
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User Review - lauralkeet - LibraryThingToni Morrison’s third novel was written in response to her father’s death, and was her first book to focus predominantly on male characters. In her essay, The Site of Memory, Morrison wrote, “But it ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| 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 & Black / General Fiction / Coming of Age Fiction / Literary |
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