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Song of Solomon (Abridged): A Novel Audiobook
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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.
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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"“Morrison dazzles. . . . She creates a black community strangely unto itself yet never out of touch with the white world. . . . With an ear as sharp as glass she has listened to the music of black talk and uses it as a palette knife to create black lives and to provide some of the best fictional dialogue around today."
— The Nation
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“A rhapsodic work…Intricate and inventive.”
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A rich, full novel…It lifts us up [and] impresses itself upon us like a love affair.”
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“Stunningly beautiful…Full of magnificent people…They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever.”
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A rich, full novel. . . . It lifts us up [and] impresses itself upon us like a love affair.
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A rhapsodic work. . . . Intricate and inventive.
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“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. -
“It places Toni Morrison in the front rank of contemporary American writers. She has written a novel that will endure.
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“Lovely. . . . A delight, full of lyrical variety and allusiveness. . . . [An] exceptionally diverse novel.
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“Morrison is a terrific storyteller. . . . Her writing evokes the joyful richness of life.
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“A marvelous novel, the most moving I have read in ten years of reviewing.
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“Toni Morrison has created a fanciful world here. . . . She has an impeccable sense of emotional detail. She’s the most sensible lyrical writer around today.
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“A fine novel exuberantly constructed. . . . So rich in its use of common speech, so sophisticated in its use of literary traditions and language from the Bible to Faulkner . . . it is also extremely funny.
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“Toni Morrison is an extraordinarily good writer. Two pages into anything she writes one feels the power of her language and the emotional authority behind that language. . . . One closes the book warmed through by the richness of its sympathy, and by its breathtaking feel for the nature of sexual sorrow.
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“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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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
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An Oprah’s Book Club Selection
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A Kirkus Reviews Pick of 10 Classics That Never Grow Old
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Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards, 1977
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Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards, 1977
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About Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor. In 2012, President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She also received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Pulitzer Prize for literature, an American Book Award, the Norman Mailer Prize, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Condorcet Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, and the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, among others. She wrote twelve novels, including Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was made into a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.