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Toni Morrison
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 YearsMilkman 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.“Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality, and revelling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs.” —The New Yorker
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Author
Toni Morrison
Pages
352
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2007-07-24
ISBN
0307388123 9780307388124
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I read this in my 10th grade English class and it was really interesting and brought up some complex discussions."
Eleanor Winston
"I love this book so much. It is beautifully written and reflective. "
Suzanne St John
"love love LOVE this book. I read this in high school a couple of years ago and i still constantly make references to it. It’s certainly a literary classic and should be a must read for all high schoolers and college kids."
Emma Henderson
"Definitely Pilate, you?"
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Morgan Brown
"My first Morrison. Decades later and it still holds a special place in my heart. Masterpiece. "
Acara Johnson
"For Toni Morrison specific probably the bluest eye. In general definitely where the crawdads sing. Absolutely LOVE that one. "
Emiah Sankey
"Applause, applause, applause! This was my second reading of this masterpiece, and with 20-years between readings, this read totally different to me today. Whereas before I attempted to read it as simply a story about a boy who grows up under the shadow of his domineering father. But now I read it as a Bildungsroman of sorts, as we watch Milkman grow from pampered, entitled, sheltered boy to a man who learns to appreciate those who have made his life easy and who made it possible for him to have a life, period. In my book club discussion, it was brought up that Morrison chose to tell this story from the perspective. We see how prevalent the men are featured, we see them develop and evolve as multi-dimensional characters. While the female characters appear more as supported cast members and as props or devices to advance the story of the men. (IMO) <br/><br/>Morrison, with her trademark use of the literary device of magical realism, builds a world where characters both past and present intersect, where ghosts visit with instruction, and where men can fly - or can they? That is the beauty of reading Morrison. There is no right or wrong interpretation, there is simply the interpretation of the reader; and what I’ve found is depending on what phase of life the reader finds themself (HS senior, college graduate, thirty something, middle aged) the interpretation is valid at that moment in time. While I don’t plan on letting another 20 years go by before visiting Milkman and crew again, I’m excited to see what another reading will reveal to me!"
Liz Thurman
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