Song of Solomon

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