Song Of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Book in good condition, tight no soilig,text clear and neat. DJ not so great/Fair +
- ISBN 10
- 0394497848
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497846
- Seller
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About This Item
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward...We see Milkman growing up in his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother, beginning to move outward--through...
Knopf,Stated First Edition , First Printing, 08/12/1977. Book in good condition, tight no soilig,text clear and neat. DJ not so great, some tears, and shelfwear. Unclipped dj $8.95, colors are bright no fading. Have not attempted repairs..
Synopsis
Song of Solomon is Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison's third novel, published in 1977 by Alfred A. Knopf . It tells the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, a young African-American living in an unnamed mid-western city in the mid-nineteenth century as he seeks to discover his own identity and relationship to the world he lives in and uncovers his family's history. Winner of the National Book Critics Award , it has faced numerous school bans and challenges since publication. Former U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly listed it as his favorite book.
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- Bookseller
- YJS BOXES OF BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio 726
- Title
- Song Of Solomon
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- Book Condition
- Used - Book in good condition, tight no soilig,text clear and neat. DJ not so great
- Jacket Condition
- Fair +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Knopf,Stated First Edition , First Printing, 08/12/1977.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394497848
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497846
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1977)
- Bookseller catalogs
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Marriage; FICTION / General;
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
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