Song of Solomon
Readers rate it 4.2 (212 on Hardcover)
337 pages · Released 2004 · Vintage International
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Song of Solomon is a canonical American novel typically taught in high school (grades 9–12) that rewards mature, engaged readers. It contains complex family dynamics, including infidelity and abandonment, along with some violence and sexual content that require emotional readiness. The novel offers profound explorations of identity, heritage, and self-discovery within African American culture, but its dense prose, magical realism, and adult themes make it most suitable for mid-to-late teens rather than younger readers.
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From the publisher
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... 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.
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- Fiction
- African Americans
- African American families
- Family
- Afro-American families
- Michigan
- Afro-Americans
- Fiction in English
- Domestic fiction
- National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1977
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
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ISBN 9781400033423 · Vintage International