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This item shows signs of wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact, but may have aesthetic issues such as small tears, bends, scratches, and scuffs. Spine may also show signs of wear. Pages may include some notes and highlighting. May include "From the library of" labels. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Edition:
As stated, 1st Plume printing dated Sept., 1987
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Published:
1977
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
11134951714
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Fair Condition. Text has underlining, hi-liting and margin notes from past studious owner. Pages are no longer white, but have a light mellow hue due to age. Edge and cover wear to all normal areas. Creasing to front cover and minor surface marring to back cover. Book won the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 8. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0452260116. ISBN/EAN: 9780452260115. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561012047.
I loved this book Toni Morrison is a great writer.
rejoyce
Aug 1, 2007
Recovering Names
Toni Morrison's 1977 epic masterwork is underpinned by a myth of flight, an image of transcendence, and a return to the ancestral homeland. Milkman Dead's journey to the South to recover his aunt Pilate's ancestral bones becomes one of self-definition and discovery, and the novel is an effort to recover the "real names of people, places and things. Names that had meaning." In its reclamation of a past expunged by slavery, Song of Solomon prefigures Beloved's exploration of that "peculiar institution." Among the novel's themes are race and class, sexual sorrow and predation, retributive violence and all-embracing love. Milkman has his opposite in the character Guitar, but they define each other as well, and represent the ideological conflicts that marked the fragmentation of the civil rights movement. Pilate (whose homonym is pilot) is the female ancestor-figure whose generous, loving spirit presides over the novel, guiding Milkman in his search for lineage and home. Rich with rose petals, a bag of bones, characters named Circe, First Corinthians and Hagar, Not Doctor Street, and a children's riddle-song, this is the most Marquezian of Morrison's oeuvre. Throughout Song of Solomon sings, and in the end surrenders to the mythic air. So will you.