Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels,published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMESSoon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight,Macon'Milkman'Dead III is born. Brought up by his well-off black family to revere the white world around him,Milkman strives to make sense of his conflicting identities. Always seeking flight in some way,he leaves his Michigan home for the South,retracing the steps of his forebears in search of his own buried heritage and is introduced to an entire cast of strivers and seeresses,liars and assassins; the inhabitants of a fully realised black world.Evocative and kaleidoscopic,Song of Solomon is a brilliantly imagined coming-of-age tale.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784876456Number of pages: 448Weight: 400 gDimensions: 177 x 129 x 27 mm
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Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being,because luck and genetics don't seem to come close to explaining herThe poetry of the language. The vernacular and the rhythms of speech... It's eavesdropping on a slice of life. You care for every character. You love them,you bleed for them. It's a masterclass in narrative fiction. It's a book that not only makes me want to be a better writer,but a better person as wellStunningly beautiful... Full of magnificent people... They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me foreverSong of Solomon...profoundly changed my lifeA rhapsodic work... Intricate and inventive
Toni Morrison
A true titan of twentieth-century American literature,Toni Morrison,who died in 2019 at the age of 88,was a pioneering author,editor and global icon. Over a long and distinguished career,her trailblazing novels became a mainstay of school syllabuses,making her a household name and earning her a slew of awards,including the Pulitzer prize,the Légion d'Honneur and a Presidential Medal of Freedom - presented to her in 2012 by Barack Obama. In one of a lifetime of barrier-breaking moments,she was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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