Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author].

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...

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Main Author: Morrison, Toni (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2004.
Edition:First Vintage International edition.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:A portion of the statement of responsibility was taken from the front cover.
"Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1977"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:xiii, 337 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781400033423
140003342X
9780847945214
0847945219
9781439571422
1439571422
0452260116
9780452260115