Song of Solomon

English

ISBN: 0394497848

EAN: 9780394497846

Category: Fiction / Literary

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 10/20/1996

Synopsis: Toni MorrisonsSong of Solomon,a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward... We see Milkman growing up in his fathers money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother, beginning to move outward--through his profound love and combat with his friend Guitar...through Guitars mad and loving commitment to the secret avengers called the Seven Days...through Milkmans exotic, imprisoning affair with his love-blind cousin, Hagar...and through his unconscious apprenticeship to his mystical Aunt Pilate, who saved his life before he was born. And we follow him as he strikes out alone; moving first toward adventure and then--as the unspoken truth about his family and his own buried heritage announces itself--toward an adventurous and crucial embrace of life. This is a novel that expresses, with passion, tenderness, and a magnificence of language, the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict, the feelings and experience of all people wanting, and striving, to be alive.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

Excerpt: Unknown Property Excerpt

Song of Solomon

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.22 inches

Width: 5.83 inches

Length: 8.65 inches

Weight: 19.65 oz

Pages: 352