Song of Solomon

Song of SolomonMilkman 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 Garc a M rquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers

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 Garc a M rquez. 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/08/2004
ISBN: 9781400033423
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.28w x 0.72d

Review Citations: Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30

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