Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison [HARDCOVER COLLECTOR'S EDITION] 1995 • Everyman's Library

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison  HARDCOVER COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1995] EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Dust jacket is excellent; now housed in a new HQ jacket protector. *Book itself reads like new; one small damp stain to lower corner of red cloth on rear boards.  Otherwise excellent. 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 G