Morrison, Toni.

Song of Solomon Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]. - - xiii, 337 pages ; 21 cm.

"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 familys 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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African American families--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.


Michigan--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.