Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - 1977-08-12

Hardcover Cloth 337 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. First edition later printing 1977; does not have first printing points of issue. Handsome black boards and silver embossing on this Clean, tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. An unclipped dust jacket clean and smooth with a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

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 brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. 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.