Song of Solomon Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

A Novel

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Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a foreword by the author and a new introduction by Tayari Jones.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

“A rhapsodic work. . . . Intricate and inventive.” —The New Yorker


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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1977
August 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.9
MB

Customer Reviews

salettarius ,

just wow

Wow.

Sunsta8 ,

Toni the Master

Toni is a master at capturing and detailing a black experience while giving direction for a better tomorrow

LoveJesusForReal ,

Lyrical genius

She’s one of one. Found this on a list of banned books and thought I’d give it a read. I’m happy I did. Compelling, thought-provoking.

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