Song of Solomon Phil Klay This is a book about

This is a book about the universe which begins with swimming salmon and ends with the starry sky

The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone

whether the weekend amateur or the devoted Chudley Cannons fanatic

How she tells strange lies about her own daughter

comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls

Song of Solomon Phil Klay This is a book aboutThe acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming of age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. 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 familys origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers