Song of Solomon: A Novel (Vintage International)

ISBN: 140003342X

Author: Morrison, Toni

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An official Oprah Winfreys 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 foreword by the author and a new introduction by Tayari Jones.One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA rhapsodic work. . . . Intricate and inventive. -The New YorkerMilkman 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 familys origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.

• intriguing novel