Song of Solomon
About this book
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.
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- african american families
- african american families--fiction
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african americans--fiction
- african continental ancestry group
- afro-american families
- afro-americans
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1977
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
- blacks
- domestic fiction
- english fiction
- families
- familles noires américaines
- family
- family life
- fiction
- fictional works publication type
- fiction in english
- general
- michigan
- michigan, fiction
- modern literature
- national book critics circle award winner
- new york times bestseller
- noirs américains
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2019-08-25
- open_syllabus_project
- ps3563.o8749 s6 2004
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 9
- romans, nouvelles