Song of Solomon
A Novel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 8, 2004
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel.
- Themes
- Coming of age, Family origins, Black community
- Genres
- Black Fiction, Coming-of-Age, Black Historical Fiction
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, June 8, 2004
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in coming-of-age stories and family origins
- Readers drawn to richly realized Black worlds
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a foreword by the author and a new introduction by Tayari Jones. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “A rhapsodic work. . . .
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Intricate and inventive.” —The New Yorker 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. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
Where it sits
| Coming-of-Age | 67% |
|---|---|
| Black Fiction | 64% |
| Black Historical Fiction | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Coming-of-Age
- Black Fiction
- Authors
- Toni Morrison
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- June 8, 2004
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Coming of age · Family origins · Black community
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction