Book :: Song of Solomon
| By: | Toni Morrison |
| Pages: | 337 |
| Published: | 1978 |
| Genre(s): | African American |
| American | |
| Magical Realism | |
| Award(s): | Nobel Prize in Literature (1993) |
| National Book Critics Circle Award (1977) | |
| Rating: | (7) |
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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...
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Song of Solomon appears on these lists...
25th on Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe
79th on 100 Greatest Novels of All Time by The Guardian
57th on Top 100 Books by Newsweek
