Name: Song of Solomon (Everyman's Library)
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Author: Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780679445043

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Toni Morrison

Introduction by

Reynolds Price

Publisher

Everyman's Library

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.1 x 13.5 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN

0679445048

ISBN13

9780679445043

Synopsis "Song of Solomon (Everyman's Library)"

In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of Black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction.Song of Solomon begins with one of the most arresting scenes in our century's literature: a dreamlike tableau depicting a man poised on a roof, about to fly into the air, while cloth rose petals swirl above the snow-covered ground and, in the astonished crowd below, one woman sings as another enters premature labor. The child born of that labor, Macon (Milkman) Dead, will eventually come to discover, through his complicated progress to maturity, the meaning of the drama that marked his birth. Toni Morrison's novel is at once a romance of self-discovery, a retelling of the Black experience in America that uncovers the inalienable poetry of that experience, and a family saga luminous in its depth, imaginative generosity, and universality. It is also a tribute to the ways in which, in the hands of a master, the ancient art of storytelling can be used to make the mysterious and invisible aspects of human life apparent, real, and firm to the touch.

Toni Morrison

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(Ohio, 1931 - Nueva York, 2019) Chloe Ardelia Wofford, conocida bajo el seudónimo Toni Morrison, es una narradora afroamericana. Alternó su trabajo de profesora de Humanidades en la Universidad de Princeton con la actividad literaria. En sus obras planteó la problemática de la población negra en Estados Unidos, en especial la situación de las mujeres. En 1993 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Murió en agosto de 2019 en el pequeño pueblo neoyorquino de Grand View-on-Hudson a los ochenta y ocho años de edad.

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