Song of Solomon

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 new foreword by the author.

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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.

"Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality, and revelling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs." --The New Yorker

Author: Toni Morrison
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/08/2004
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781400033423

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 18432 / Song of Solomon


Review Citation(s):
Ebony 09/01/2004 pg. 30
Library Journal 06/01/2025 pg. 83

About the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.