Song of Solomon
A Novel
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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.
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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“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
The editing! Pieces of the story have been cut out and short summaries are being read out by a hard, male, clearly white (sorry) voice without any feeling, It’s a bit like having a bucket of cold water poured over your head every so often. And we have to ask, why?? The story’s not too long. The bits cut out are not essential but it’s quite noticeable that something’s missing so they are important. Surely Toni Morrison has recorded the whole story, so the easiest option would be to just leave it intact… The only explanation I have is that they were censored and the recording company wanted to make this quite clear. After all, in some regions of the US, the reading of Toni Morrison apparently is still forbidden in schools.
Ultimately I don’t know the reason. But I feel that this kind of dealing with authors and their texts deserves 3 stars only.
Beautiful story, wonderfully read, crippled by editing and possibly censorship
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