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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Chivers North Amer
Publication date
June 1, 1994
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780792719366
ISBN-10
0792719360
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.65 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$24.95
Other format details
large print
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Macon Dead, Jr., called Milkman, son of the richest Negro in town, moves from childhood into early manhood, searching, among the disparate, mysterious members of his family, for his life and reality
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.
This is a novel that expresses, with passion, tenderness, and a magnificence of language, the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict, the feelings and experience of all people wanting, and striving, to be alive.
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.
This is a novel that expresses, with passion, tenderness, and a magnificence of language, the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict, the feelings and experience of all people wanting, and striving, to be alive.
Editions
Hardcover
Reprint edition from Buccaneer Books (December 1, 1995)
9781568496320 | details & prices | List price $24.95
Reprint edition from Buccaneer Books (December 1, 1995)
9781568496320 | details & prices | List price $24.95
Reprint edition from Everymans Library (November 1, 1995)
9780679445043 | details & prices | 362 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
The price comparison is for this edition
Large print edition from Chivers North Amer (June 1, 1994)
9780792719366 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (September 1, 1977)
9780394497846 | details & prices | 337 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $29.95
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (June 1, 2004)
9781400033423 | details & prices | 337 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
With Cliffs Notes, Inc (other contributor), Durthy Washington |
from Cliff Notes (May 1, 1999)
9780764585074 | details & prices | 120 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.25 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $4.95
About: Song of Solomon explores the quest for cultural identity through an African American folktale about enslaved Africans who escape slavery by fleeing back to Africa.
About: Song of Solomon explores the quest for cultural identity through an African American folktale about enslaved Africans who escape slavery by fleeing back to Africa.
Large print edition from Chivers North Amer (May 1, 1994)
9780792719359 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $22.95
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
With Vincent Pauletti |
Reissue edition from New Amer Library (October 1, 1993)
With James Sharkey |
from New Amer Library (June 1, 1989)
Reissue edition from Plume (September 1, 1987)
9780452260115 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $14.00
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
from Plume (September 1, 1987)
9780452252448 | details & prices | List price $8.95
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
Reissue edition from Plume (September 1, 1987)
9789990858525 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $0.02
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
from Signet Classic (November 1, 1978)
9780451129338 | details & prices | List price $3.95
Miscellaneous
from Vintage Books (July 24, 2007)
9780307388124 | details & prices | List price $15.00
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
CD/Spoken Word
Unabridged edition from Random House (September 13, 2016)
9780147520265 | details & prices | List price $45.00
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
Cassette/Spoken Word
Unabridged edition from Recorded Books (June 1, 1999)
9780788734670 | details & prices | List price $80.00
About: This novel takes readers into a magical and richly peopled world which encompasses four generations of African American life.
About: This novel takes readers into a magical and richly peopled world which encompasses four generations of African American life.
Abridged edition from Random House (October 1, 1985)
9780394550381 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $18.00
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
Reinforced
from Demco Media (August 26, 2004)
9780606313063 | details & prices | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $23.50
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
from Demco Media (September 1, 1987)
9780606050920 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $23.01
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (November 5, 2008)
9781439571422 | details & prices | 337 pages | List price $23.95
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
from Turtleback Books (June 1, 2004)
9781417743025 | details & prices | 337 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $28.10
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
This edition also contains Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
from Turtleback Books (October 1, 1999)
9780613014816 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $23.60
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
About: Macon Dead, Jr.
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