Song of Solomon - Softcover

Morrison, Toni

4.14

113,405 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451129334 ISBN 13: 9780451129338

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1978

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A Good copy of ""a literary jewel...an unusual dramatic story of the black experience in America...of unrequited loves and bitter hates, of truths and revenges, of intense loyalties."--Fort Wayne Gazette" Creasing to front cover. Spine has five creases from top to bottom. Signet ID AE 2933. Crease on front cover along the length of the spine. Sunning inside both covers. Small ding to side page edging of front flyleaf. Small spotting to bottom edging. Inside back cover is a pen mark in blue ballpoint. Page numbers are circled in blue ballpoint on pages: 28, 55, 62, 63, 108, 163, 180, 207, 223, 237, 238, 279, 280, 304, 320. 341 pages. From verso:"First Signet Printing, November, 1978" The novel is in 2 Parts and 15 Chapters. From inside back cover:""A Novel Written With Literary Distinction and Emotional Power!" John Barkham Reviews"

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Review:

Oprah Book Club� Selection, October 1996: In an effort to hide his Southern, working class roots, Macon Dead, an upper-class Northern black businessman, tries to insulate his family from the danger and despair of the rank and file blacks with whom he shares the neighborhood. The plan leads his son, "Milkman"--a named he earned after his mother nursed him well past the proper age--onto a path exactly opposite the one his father had hoped. Milkman is driven into the arms of a violent, lower-class woman, into a clandestine circle of blacks who repay white violence in kind and into an awareness that he can fulfill his own potential by understanding the mistakes of his ancestors as they relate to his own.

From the Publisher:

"A stunningly beautiful book . . . I would call the book poetry, but that would seem to be denying its considerable power as a story. Whatever name you give it, it's full of magnificent people, each of them complex and multilayered, even the narrowest of them narrow in extravagant ways."
--Anne Tyler
Washington Post Book World

"Morrison's prose is a delight, full of the lyrical variety and allusiveness that distinguish a rich folkloric tradition. Her real gift, though, is for characterization, and Song of Solomon is peopled with an amazing collection of losers and fighters, innocents and murderers, followers of ghosts and followers of money, all of whom add to the pleasure of this exceptionally diverse novel."
--The Atlantic Monthly

"Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstance and personality, and reveling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs."
--The New Yorker

"Exuberant . . . An artistic vision that encompasses both a private and a national heritage."
--Time

"A fine novel exuberantly constructed . . . So rich in its use of common speech, so sophisticated in its use of literary traditions and language from the Bible to Faulkner . . . it is also extremely funny."
--The Hudson Review

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