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Title details for Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - Available

Song of Solomon

A Novel

by Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
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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.
One of The Atlantic’s 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 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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  • Release date

    September 12, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780147520296
      • File size: 445694 KB
      • Duration: 15:28:31

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 870
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      There's nothing like hearing the voice of a fine author reading her own work. Toni Morrison certainly doesn't disappoint in this recording. Besides the riveting story of three generations of the Dead family, Morrison delivers to listeners each handcrafted character with precision and heartfelt enthusiasm. Periodically interwoven with Morrison's voice is another narrator's, presumably to fill in the discontinuities that occurred during editing for abridgment. This sort of tag-team narration hardly detracts from the strength of the production as a whole. SONG OF SOLOMON is a superbly crafted novel, which is only improved by Morrison's touching performance. R.A.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Seldom does it happen that each of the thousands of words in a novel seems as inevitable and well chosen as the words in a poem. So it is with Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's SONG OF SOLOMON. Reader Lynn Thigpen reads with deliberate care. Her studied enunciation allows Morrison's precisely crafted phrases to create their own focus. Thigpen's rich, honeyed voice is best in its lower ranges, good casting for a book that features so many male view-points yet is written by a woman. Wisely, Thigpen varies inflection and dialect more than pitch to create characters. S.P. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:870
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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