Song of Solomon A Novel

Toni Morrison, Tayari Jones, Karen Murray

eAudio - 2017

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. . . . Intricate and inventive.” —The New YorkerMilkman 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 seere...sses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world. more