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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection – The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.
One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “A rhapsodic work. . . . Intricate and inventive.” —The New Yorker 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.Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Toni Morrison
Published: 06/08/2004
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781400033423
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 0.90″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.10″ W
About the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
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