{"product_id":"song-of-solomon-by-toni-morrison","title":"Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToni Morrison's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSong of Solomon,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 352 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story w\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eith this brilliantly imagined novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rhapsodic work. . . . Intricate and inventive.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stray Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48137446654188,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1651\/1201\/files\/Song_of_Solomon_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1792021590","url":"https:\/\/burkemercantile.com\/en-fr\/products\/song-of-solomon-by-toni-morrison","provider":"Burke Mercantile","version":"1.0","type":"link"}