Song of Solomon: A Novel / by Toni Morrison

Plume, 1987. Trade pb. Light yellowing of page edges. VG. 

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.