Song of Solomon
by:
Toni Morrison (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452260115 (0452260116)
Publish date: September 1st 1987
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 337
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
African American,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism
You know your love keeps on lifting me, lifting me higher and higherEarlier this year, I realized two things: (1) Even though Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is one of my desert island books, I’ve only read it once, and that was about 15 years ago, and (2) I haven’t even owned a copy for half that t...
You know your love keeps on lifting me, lifting me higher and higherEarlier this year, I realized two things: (1) Even though Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is one of my desert island books, I’ve only read it once, and that was about 15 years ago, and (2) I haven’t even owned a copy for half that t...
Not going to lie, this was slow going for me, but very rewarding. The magical realism elements in the beginning seemed to augur a disappointing reading experience, but luckily everyone was right and Toni Morrison delivered, her characters didn't just have weird things happen to them and fall in love...
Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon deals with the African-American world of the early 1960’s. Milkman Dead is the first black baby to be born in Mercy Hospital. Pampered by the women in his family and his father, a slum landlord who thinks only of his wealth, he leaves home at 32 to find a buried...
This is one of those books that is going to stay with me for a long time. It is not often that a book is simultaneously as charming as it is complex, but Song of Solomon is definitely that.Currently at the top of my favorite books this year.
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