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Other titles in the Vintage International Vintage International series:Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"Morrison is a terrific storyteller....Her writing evokes the joyful richness of life." Newsday Review:"Toni Morrison is an extraordinarily good writer....One closes the book warmed through by the richness of its sympathy, and by its breathtaking feel for the nature of sexual sorrow." The Village Voice Review:"Toni Morrison has created a fanciful world here....She has an impeccable sense of emotional detail. She's the most sensible lyrical writer around today." The Philadelphia Inquirer Review:"A marvelous novel, the most moving I have read in ten years of reviewing." Cleveland Plain Dealer Review:"A rhapsodic work....Intricate and inventive." The New Yorker Review:"With an ear as sharp as glass [Morrison] has listened to the music of black talk and uses it as a palette knife to create black lives and to provide some of the best fictional dialogue around today." The Nation Review:"Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality...." The New Yorker About the AuthorToni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 1 comment:
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