num_pages: 341
description: 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.
language: English
title: Song of Solomon
titlecomplete: Song of Solomon
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, American, African American, Novels, Fiction, Classics, School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 108487
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Signet/New American Library