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This novel takes readers into a magical and richly peopled world which encompasses four generations of African American life.
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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.
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"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
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--Anne Tyler
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"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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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0701123753
- ISBN 13 9780701123758
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with a mild tone and mark to page ends. Complete DJ with some edge wear and one small tape repair. Solid binding. Seller Inventory # 9999-9995400121
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine First Uk Edition in Near Fine unclipped DJ.ink number written to fep otherwise a clean, tight and bright copy. Seller Inventory # 006450
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Book Description Hard Cover. First U. K. Edition. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Blue boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 337pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a faint touch of fading to the spine; there is, also, a 1/16" chip at the base of the front panel. The original price is intact. A highly presentable copy of the author's third novel. ".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." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request. Seller Inventory # 202-0220
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Michael Harvey [Dustwrapper design] (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of first UK edition. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. Black and white photographic portrait of Toni Morrison to rear of jacket by Helen Marcus. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. There is also a small bump to the lower edge of the rear board. Top edge of text block nice and clean. Interior near fine, with just the merest hint of offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. No foxing to interior pages or prelims or pastedowns. Spine tight. Pages clean. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, that has been price-clipped by the publisher, with a re-priced sticker of £8.95 net replacing the original printed price of £5.95 net. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly creased, otherwise the dustwrapper remains uncreased. A very small closed tear to the rear panel near the foldover. None of the usual fading or browning to the spine of the dustwrapper that is usually found with this title. The red titles to the spine are still bright. Rear and front panels of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***337 pages. 204 mm x 134 mm. ***'A work of lasting beauty and power, Song of Solomon has been singled out by the critics as the best novel of the black experience since Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man". ***The story, which runs from the 1930s to the 1960s, centres on Macon Dead JR., the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of the white society from his friend, Guitar, though he is more concerned to escape the tyranny of his father. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group of poor blacks, Macon goes home to the South, lured by tales of buried family treasure. His journey leads to the discovery of something more valuable than gold: his past. Yet the truth about his origins and his true self is not fully revealed to Macon until he and Guitar meet once again in a powerful, and deadly, confrontation.' ***---Toni Morrison has written a brilliant prose tale that surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges on a single family.' [New York Times Book Review] ***'Following up her "The Bluest Eye" and "Sula", Morrison has produced a novel about the black experience in America that is as extraordinary in its imaginative, dramatic feeling as Roots --- A spellbinding tale, superbly written.' [Publishers weekly] Quote and review quotes from inside front of dustwrapper blurb. ***First impression of the first UK edition of "Song of Solomon", in very nice collectable condition. Although not a scarce book, it is hard to find copies of the UK first edition in this near fine condition. ***Of interest to collectors of Toni Morrison and twentieth century American literature first edition titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 7190z
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. London: Chatto & Windus Ltd., 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Beautifully and boldly signed by the author on the half-title page upon publication. A pristine copy in a pristine dustwrapper, which has been price-clipped by the publishers with a new price ("Publishers Price Net UK Only £13.99") affixed to the front flap. Very rare to find this title signed. It is part of our Catalogue 5: 100 Key Books. Signatur des Verfassers. Seller Inventory # 000167
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