Song of Solomon

From Our Editors

Macon "Milkman" Dead undertakes a journey through family history to attain a deeper understanding of his own identity. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison performs Song of Solomon with emotion and skill, making this already incredible novel into an unforgettable listening experience.

From the Publisher

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 novel, Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story. 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.

From The Critics

Reynolds Price The [novel's] purpose seems to be communication of painfully discovered and powerfully held convictions about the possibility of transcendence within human life....The end is unresolved. Does Milkman survive[?]....Few Americans...can say more than she has in this wise and spacious novel. -The New York TimesSeptember 111977 Margo Jefferson - Ms. Magazine The ordinary spars with the extraordinary in Morrison's books. What would be a classically tragic sensibility, with its implacable move toward crisis and the extremes of pity and horror, is altered and illuminated by a thousand smaller, natural occurrences and circumstances.