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 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.

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (June 8, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400033423
• ISBN-13: 9781400033423
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces