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Title: Song Of Solomon (Cliffs Notes) by Durthy A. Washington ISBN: 0-7645-8507-X Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (183 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Toni Morrison's best novels
Comment: With passion and a voice that sings with beautiful detail and magic, Toni Morrison's third novel, published in 1977, is a powerful tale that follows the lives of a black family and their friends living in a Michigan city. In 1931, Macon Dead III, later nicknamed Milkman, is prematurely brought into the world, the first black child born in Mercy Hospital, just after his mother witnesses the brief flight of a man determined to fly from the cupola of the hospital. Although the novel revolves around Milkman, the stories spun out from him embrace a wide variety of characters and experiences. Morrison explores the lasting stamp of slavery through the name of Macon Dead; the intimate culture of women through Pilate, Reba, and Hagar; the hunger for property and respectability through Milkman's father; the idea of one's "people" through those in the South who have not forgotten connections; the violence of civil rights through Guitar; and many more issues facing blacks of the times and today. Despite the resonance of history, this novel is ultimately about its people and their eagerly lived lives. Morrison plunges her readers into their hearts with a humanity and skill too few novelists possess. The result is a remarkably emotional and intelligent story that will stay with you for a long time.
Readers should not be intimidated by Morrison's Nobel Prize Winner status, as this novel, like most of her others, is written in startling but accessible language. You don't need an advanced degree (or even a specific race or gender) to slip into her magical prose. Her characters are real and fully realized, and feel like friends, even when you might want to shake them to their senses. Although some readers will be puzzled by the end, wanting perhaps the next sentence that explains it all, Morrison has included by her omission the real meaning of her book. Visit with it for a few moments before closing the cover.
I highly recommend this book for a wide range of readers, from high school students to adults. Even though it was written in the 1970's, its themes and characters still have relevance today. Morrison is one of the world's literary gifts, and should not be missed. THE SONG OF SOLOMON is one of her best novels.
Rating: 4
Summary: Song of Solomon
Comment: Toni Morrison's third novel, "Song of Solomon", is one of her more praised novels (but then again which is not). Morrison takes on a third-person limited point of view of Milkman, which is extremely intriguing for it is a black man as her protagonist, not a black woman as with the rest of her works.
Evidently though, "Song of Solomon" is more of a communal novel, as seen with the impressive opening chapter with the gathered people viewing the the unfortunate, rough, and yet touching suicide of a local resident. The impressive selection of characters makes it as well planned out as Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" or anything by William Faulkner.
The best parts of this novel are the bookends - the wonderfully constructed, metaphoric, and chaotic opening chapter, and the gutwretching climax that made me see this book as something quite redeemable. Morrison has a knack for poetic writing, much like Virginia Woolf. The middle layers may not be a strong as the bookends, but it is definitely worth the hours you spend devoted to it, for it is a novel that is unforgettable.
Rating: 5
Summary: best book ever
Comment: i highly recommend this book. her writing is absolutely incredible. she "gets it."
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Title: Beloved by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452280621 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sula by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452283868 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Paradise by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452280397 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452264790 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Jazz (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452269652 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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