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Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

Paperback | Pages: 337 pages

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Title	:	Song of Solomon
Author	:	Toni Morrison
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 337 pages
Published	:	June 8th 2004 by Vintage (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. Literature. Novels. Magical Realism

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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.

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Original Title:	Song of Solomon
ISBN:	140003342X (ISBN13: 9781400033423)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (1977), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1977)

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Almost four whole months into 2015 and I've finally read my first four-star book. You can always trust Toni Morrison to deliver even when you think all hope is lost. I think Song of Solomon is my favourite Morrison novel thus far. This novel just flows with greatness. I feel that I enjoyed this book more than let's say, Beloved, because the time period in which this is set (the 1930s through to the 60s) is an era with which I'm relatively familiar. She references the murder of Emmett Till and

In a criminal amount of oversimplification I will simply say that Song of Solomon is a perfect novel that has reached a higher level of perfection in my mind during this reread. I'm not sure how many more years of reading I have left, but I'm sure it will take a long time for me to read any work of literature that is better than this.I'll post some specfic 2019 thoughts soon, but in the mean time, my thoughts from my initial read in February of 2018 is below.

Song of Solomon is a timeless classic and coming-of-age tale as told as only Toni Morrison can do in this moving and lyrical novel. I was so moved by the author's Forward to the book where she talks about the death of her father stressing that even in the grip of the unmanageable sadness and grief, that each of his four children was convinced that he loved him or her best by the gifts he shared with each throughout their lives, and how he spoke to each in the language only they understood. Toni

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. Toni Morrison, Song of SolomonI liked all of it and loved much of it. It is an amazing piece of literature with beautifully realized characters. Originally, I felt this book was on par with The Bluest Eye, but still not as strong as Beloved. I now think they are ALL great Morrison novels. The further I get from this book, the bigger and the bolder the shadow it casts. I love how Morrison writes and how she juggles big themes

Toni Morrison is an absolute master of prose rhythms and this book is beautifully written. It reads like great literature and one can see why she's deserving of her nobel prize. But I had a serious problem with this book (which I read over ten years ago so forgive me if my memory of it is vague). The first three quarters of the book are terrific. Written in a realistic style and capturing the modern lives of its characters. The final section of the book suddenly turns into a fable, and the main

This book takes me back to my college English classes, when I read so many books that were rich in beautiful language but poor in plot and action. There's no doubt that Morrison is a gifted writer, especially when it comes to down-to-earth, authentic dialogue. Her writing is poetic and lyrical without being abstract or fussy -- she describes real things, disgusting things, sadness and passion with an intense energy and verbal power. But the plot of this book didn't grab me. I remember enjoying

Acquired a first-edition hardcover with its dust jacket in great shape a few months ago for $1 at the Philadelphia public library branch next to where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Read it now after the author died. I read The Bluest Eye and Beloved in my first college-level English Lit class. Don't remember much of The Bluest Eye but Beloved electrified me, maybe the first great contemporary novel I'd read at the time, and then I bought Jazz when it came out but was