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  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Date published: 1977
  • ISBN: 9780394497846
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 First printing of the stated edition. Signed by Toni Morrison directly on the title-page. Corners slightly bumped, minor edge wear, foot of spine softly pushed, a few pages with faint soiling, and a stamp size ghost to back paste-down, else book in fine condition; original dust jacket with minor edge wear, faint toning to spine, else fine. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell case.
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Knopf, 1977. 1. Very Good. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward... We see Milkman growing up in his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother, beginning to move outward--through his profound love and combat with his friend Guitar...through Guitar's mad and loving commitment to the secret avengers called the Seven Days...through Milkman's exotic, imprisoning affair with his love-blind cousin, Hagar...and through his unconscious apprenticeship to his mystical Aunt Pilate, who saved his life before he was born. And we follow him as he strikes out alone; moving first toward adventure and then--as the unspoken truth about his family and his own buried heritage announces itself--toward an adventurous and crucial embrace of life. This is a novel that expresses, with passion, tenderness, and a magnificence of language, the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict, the feelings and experience of all people wanting, and striving, to be alive. Inscribed, signedHardcoverBox 3
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  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Date published: 1977
  • Format: hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780394497846
8vo, black cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf, . 1977. First Edition. Fine in near fine dust wrapper The spine of the price-intact yellow dust wrapper is slightly faded and very slightly chipped at the top edge. The title page is signed " Best wishes/ Toni Morrison."
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