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  • Published: 4 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448103911
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

Song of Solomon




Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES

Soon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight, Macon 'Milkman' Dead III is born. Brought up by his well-off black family to revere the white world around him, Milkman strives to make sense of his conflicting identities. Always seeking flight in some way, he leaves his Michigan home for the South, retracing the steps of his forebears in search of his own buried heritage and is introduced to an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins; the inhabitants of a fully realised black world.

Evocative and kaleidoscopic, Song of Solomon is a brilliantly imagined coming-of-age tale.

  • Published: 4 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781448103911
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

About the author

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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Praise for Song of Solomon

The poetry of the language. The vernacular and the rhythms of speech... It's eavesdropping on a slice of life. You care for every character. You love them, you bleed for them. It's a masterclass in narrative fiction. It's a book that not only makes me want to be a better writer, but a better person as well

Sarah Winman, Good Housekeeping

The language of Morrison's third novel astounds from its first pages to its triumphant conclusion... an epic of the African-American experience

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Week

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Guardian

A rhapsodic work... Intricate and inventive

New Yorker

Stunningly beautiful... Full of magnificent people... They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever

Anne Tyler, Washington Post

A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story...glittering

Daily Telegraph

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon grips as a novel of extraordinary truth, wisdom and humour

Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

Song of Solomon…profoundly changed my life

Marlon James, Guardian

Toni Morrison has written a brilliant prose tale that surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges on a single family

New York Times Book Review

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon grips as a novel of extraordinary truth, wisdom and humour

Sunday Telegraph

A stunning novel that's steeped in black history

Marc Chacksfield, ShortList

The story of Milkman Dead and Guitar had me in thrall

Salman Rushdie, New York Times

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Guardian

A rhapsodic work... Intricate and inventive

New Yorker

Stunningly beautiful... Full of magnificent people... They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever

Anne Tyler, Washington Post

A complex, wonderfully alive and imaginative story...glittering

Daily Telegraph

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon grips as a novel of extraordinary truth, wisdom and humour

Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

Song of Solomon…profoundly changed my life

Marlon James, Guardian

Toni Morrison has written a brilliant prose tale that surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges on a single family

New York Times Book Review

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon grips as a novel of extraordinary truth, wisdom and humour

Sunday Telegraph