Song of Solomon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400033423)

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 new foreword by the author.

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

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.

"Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality, and revelling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs." --The New Yorker

Author: Toni Morrison
ISBN-10: 140003342X
ISBN-13: 9781400033423
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2004
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 18432 / Song of Solomon


Review Citation(s):
Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30