Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison [FIRST BC EDITION / 11th PRINTING]

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

BOOK CLUB FIRST EDITION / 11TH PRINTING [1993] ALFRED A. KNOPF

*Identical to the true first edition, without a price on front panel.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.   Some light wear to boards.  Reads good as new. 

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.  - Bookshop Apocalypse