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Song Of Solomon

by Toni Morrison
Song Of Solomon

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ISBN13: 9780452260115
ISBN10: 0452260116
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1997 National Book Critics Circle Award

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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 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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"Lovely....A delight, full of lyrical variety and allusiveness....[An] exceptionally diverse novel." The Atlantic Monthly

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"Morrison dazzles....She creates a black community strangely unto itself yet never out of touch with the white world....With an ear as sharp as glass she 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

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"It places Toni Morrison in the front rank of contemporary American writers. She has written a novel that will endure" The Washington Post

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"Stunningly beautiful....Full of magnificent people....They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever." Anne Tyler, The Washington Post

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"A rich, full novel....It lifts us up [and] impresses itself upon us like a love affair." The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Toni Morrison is the author of ten previous novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to Home (2012). 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 New York.

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jelisa_laronda , December 03, 2007
I love this book I read it in my English 101/102 Dual Enrollment class, taught by Mrs. Angela A Rush and got hooked on the writers craft and how Toni Morrison displayed such strong dialect and how powerful her words are. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in history because she has a way of drwaing the reader into that present time in which she is writing about. My entire English 101/102 Dual Enrollment class enjoyed the novel. Two thumbs up Toni Morrison.You should try all of Toni Morrison's novel trust me you will get hooked just as I did. Miss Jelisa!

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780452260115
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/01/1987
Publisher:
PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE
Pages:
337 p.
Height:
8.06 in.
Width:
5.34 in.
Thickness:
.91 in.
Grade Range:
General/trade
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1987
Series Volume:
v. 39
UPC Code:
2800452260117
Author:
Toni Morrison
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Michigan
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
Literature, Modern
Subject:
Michigan Fiction.
Subject:
Blacks
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Afro-American families
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
African American families
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Family

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