Song of Solomon: A Novel
Toni Morrison
May 2009 ¡ Penguin Random House Audio ¡ Narrated by Toni Morrison
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠An official Oprah Winfreyâs âThe Books That Help Me Throughâ 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 Atlanticâs 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 familyâs origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
âMorrison 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.â âThe New Yorker
One of The Atlanticâs 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 familyâs origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
âMorrison 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.â âThe New Yorker
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4.3
13 reviews
TK All Day
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September 2, 2023
I don't love the automated voice that kicks in sometimes instead of the author's. Had I not already read it in print a few times, I would not know about the parts it glosses over. Beautiful, wonderful story, and the author has a wonderful voice. But these factors are disappointing.
Alisha Gandhi
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October 17, 2022
Be warned that this audiobook skips reading parts of the book and instead summarizes it. This was not ideal for the english class I bought it for. Would not recommend this audio book.
Nichole Hobson
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October 2, 2022
she is a great storyteller.
About the author
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She now divides her time between Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. She is the author of five other novels: Paradise, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book Critics Award for fiction, Tar Baby and Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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