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Song of Solomon
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Overview
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 Garci a Ma rquez. 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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- ISBN-13: 9780756940546
- ISBN-10: 0756940540
- Publisher: Turtleback Books
- Publish Date: January 2001
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.9 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 337
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