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Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Vintage International 2004Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: xiii, 337 p. 21 cmISBN:
  • 140003342X (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Song of Solomon
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3563.O8749 S6 2004
Online resources: Summary: 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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Books Books GESM Library Main Library English Fiction Adolescent-Adult EFA/ SL/ MOR S698 Available E0003214

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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