Song of Solomon Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author].

By:

Morrison, Toni [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Vintage International, 2004Edition: Description: xiii, 337 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781400033423
140003342X
9780756940546
0756940540

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction.

Online resources:

Subject: "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 Garca̕ Mr̀quez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family<U+2019>s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world." --Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Main	Jones Public Library	F MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	3370000089798

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"Originally published in slightly different form ... by Alfred A. Knopf ... New York, 1977"--T.p. verso.

"A novel"--Cover.

"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 Garca̕ Mr̀quez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family<U+2019>s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world." --Back cover.

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