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Song of Solomon

By Toni Morrison

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| Paperback | 9781400033423

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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 GaContinue

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 García Márquez. 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.

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  • The Oppressor in the Next Room

    Natives of poverty, children of malheur The gaiety of language is our seigneur Wallace Stevens’s words might be the epigraph for the work of both Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison, writers very different from each other, whose wonderful richness and vital ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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  • at the first few chapter i struggled with this book, with the style and the content. and then when i read on, i really loved it.

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  • I do not recall how I got turned onto Toni Morrison, but right after college I began reading her. I recall very much enjoying this story.

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