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- Publisher: Random House Inc
- ISBN: 140003342X
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101738495
- Release Date: June 1, 2004
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #61311 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #7550 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #588 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Song of Solomon"Browse more products related to "Toni Morrison"Review"...'Song of Solomon' moves like a gravely choreographed procession or dance. The cast of characters, though it feels small and intimate, is large...the bones of Morrison's language participate in every scene, every sidelong comment, in creating the paradox of a degree of racial repression that is...both important and negligible for the reader's experience of the book...The world of Morrison's black Americans...is, after all, the actual world--no exotic island." "A long story...and better than good. Toni Morrison has earned attention and praise. Few Americans know, and can say, more than she has in this wise and spacious novel." First lineThe North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock. Publisher's noteThis novel takes readers into a magical and richly peopled world which encompasses four generations of African American life. Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward...We see Milkman growing up in his fathers money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother, beginning to move outward--through his profound love and combat with his friend Guitar...through Guitars mad and loving commitment to the secret avengers called the Seven Days...through Milkman's exotic, imprisoning affair with his love-blind cousin, Hagar...and through his unconscious apprenticeship to his mystical Aunt Pilate, who saved his life before he was born.And we follow him as he strikes out alone; moving first toward adventure and then--as the unspoken truth about his family and his own buried heritage announces itself--toward an adventurous and crucial embrace of life.This is a novel that expresses, with passion, tenderness, and a magnificence of language, the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict, the feelings and experience of all people wanting, and striving, to be alive. AnnotationIn Toni Morrison's powerful 1977 novel, Milkman Dead hears a strange story: his father and his aunt Pilate witnessed their father's murder, and Pilate has carried his bones around with her for 20 years. Milkman travels south to find that this grandfather (who fled slavery and escaped, creating a myth of flight) has been immortalized in folktales and songs. He and Pilate bury his bones at last, and Milkman is made free and powerful by his newfound connection to his ancestors. Winner of the 1978 National Book Critics Award. If You Enjoy "Song of Solomon (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Song of Solomon (Paperback)" by Toni Morrison (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fiction & Literature Bestselling BooksExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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