Song of Solomon
By Toni Morrison
- Release Date: 1977-08-12
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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 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
Reviews
Lyrical genius
5By Cashmere NicoleShe’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.Nope nope
1By SpacecreatenicmnameSome parts of this is not in the bookBeautifully Written!
5By RaydioChickToni Morrison has once again graced her fans with her masterful story telling skills. The deep weaving of fictional and historical facts of the characters, locations and raw emotions throughout this tale is thought provoking. And to think this wonderful author's book was placed on the banned list..? Philistines!Perfection!
5By iRodiI loved this book. It blends lessons in history with the psychology of African-Americans!Song of Solomon
5By Back_seat_driver_Phenomenal story told using beautiful language and sentences that flowed like streams. There are so many allusions and innuendo hidden within the depths of this novel that an educated reader couldn't find one page boring.
