{"product_id":"song-of-solomon-a-novel-by-toni-morrison","title":"Song of Solomon: A Novel by Toni Morrison (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction - Literary - Coming of Age - African American and Black\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by: Tayari Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilkman 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. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality, and revelling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs.” —The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacket Description\/Flap\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMilkman 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 Garcia Marquez. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Originally published in slightly different form ... by Alfred A. Knopf ... New York, 1977\"--T.p. verso.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAUTHOR BIO: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1970) to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503817822401,"sku":"9781400033423","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/7522\/1441\/files\/SongofSolomon.jpg?v=1786912428","url":"https:\/\/www.bookhavenbooks.com\/products\/song-of-solomon-a-novel-by-toni-morrison","provider":"Book Haven Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}