Song of Solomon (Everyman's Library)

Toni Morrison, Introduction by Reynolds Price

ISBN 10: 0679445048 / ISBN 13: 9780679445043

Published by Everyman's Library, New York, 1995

About this Item

Everyman's Library, New York, 1995, Hardcover First Edition Thus, with an introduction by Reynolds Price. Book Condition: A Fine tight copy, but with a tiny, faint stain at the bottom corner (1/4 inch or so), listed as Near Fine. Dust jacket is Very Near Fine and unclipped - comes in a removable, Archival, mylar sleeve - aside from the faint mark looks new.

Seller Inventory # 001695

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Song of Solomon (Everyman's Library)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679445048
• ISBN 13: 9780679445043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (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.