Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by Reynolds Price.
Macon Dead, Jr., known as Milkman, grows up in "his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother" and with his friend Guitar who is connected to the secret avengers called the Seven Days, falls in love with his cousin Hagar, learns from bootlegging Aunt Pilate, and then heads south, lured by the promise of buried gold and the mysteries of his heritage.
Record details
- ISBN: 0679445048
- ISBN: 9780679445043
- Physical Description: xxv, 363 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
- Copyright: ©1977
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page xix). |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5 14 18432. |
Awards Note: | National Book Critics Circle Award, 1977 |
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Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Novels. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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Song of Solomon : Introduction by Reynolds Price
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Song of Solomon : Introduction by Reynolds Price
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of Black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction. Song of Solomon begins with one of the most arresting scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air, while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as another enters premature labor. The child born of that labor, Macon (Milkman) Dead, will eventually come to discover, through his complicated progress to maturity, the meaning of the drama that marked his birth. Toni Morrison's novel is at once a romance of self-discovery, a retelling of the Black experience in America that uncovers the inalienable poetry of that experience, and a family saga luminous in its depth, imaginative generosity, and universality. It is also a tribute to the ways in which, in the hands of a master, the ancient art of storytelling can be used to make the mysterious and invisible aspects of human life apparent, real, and firm to the touch.