Author

Publication

2004 - Vintage International, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

84,250 words, Guess

Page Count

337 pages

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and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3563.O8749 S6 2004

Description

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. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.

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  • Fiction

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