
Song of Solomon
A Novel
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Toni Morrison
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By:
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Toni Morrison
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 new foreword by the author.
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 family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
“Morrison 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.” —The New Yorker
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Critic reviews
“A rich, full novel. . . . It lifts us up [and] impresses itself upon us like a love affair.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Stunningly beautiful. . . . Full of magnificent people. . . . They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever.” —Anne Tyler, The Washington Post
“If Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man went underground, Toni Morrison’s Milkman flies.” —John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review
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Excellence
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Mangling of a beautiful novel
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Would you consider the audio edition of Song of Solomon to be better than the print version?
Definitely go with the actual book. This abridged version leaves out so much!What did you like best about this story?
This is a story about naming and discovery of self. It's very relatable and complex.Would you listen to another book narrated by Toni Morrison?
I'll definitely try to avoid audiobooks narrated by Toni Morrison in the future. She doesn't seem to be able to perform as well as she writes.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It threw me for a loop a few times, but there wasn't anything too crazy going on.Great story, not so great reading.
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Song of Solomon
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Yes and no. Yes because Toni Morrison does a fantastic job narrating it, but no because you're not getting the full story. I like to read along with a paper version of the book, and it was very confusing to try and follow along because she would skip parts of it. It's probably to make it shorter, but good books should be read in full.It's not the whole book... :(
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Audiobook fatally marred by author's performance
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Great writer, but terrible male A.I voice over
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The most extraordinary book I have ever read
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Great book!
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