Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

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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. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.

Book Details

ISBN13	9781400033423
ISBN10	140003342X
Series/Work	OL50564W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Vintage
Pages	338
Language	ENG
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	April 18, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

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1000blackgirlbooks African American families African american families--fiction African Americans African americans, fiction African americans--fiction African Continental Ancestry Group Afro-American families Afro-Americans American fiction (fictional works by one author) award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1977 award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction Blacks Domestic fiction English fiction Families Familles noires américaines Family Family life Fiction

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