Details

Subject(s)

• African Americans—Fiction [Browse]
• African American families—Fiction [Browse]
• Family secrets—Fiction [Browse]
• African Americans [Browse]
• American fiction—20th century [Browse]
• Michigan—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Domestic fiction [Browse]
• Magic realist fiction [Browse]
• Novels [Browse]

Series

Casebooks in criticism [More in this series]

Summary note

• This novel takes readers into a magical and richly peopled world which encompasses four generations of African American life.
• 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.

Notes

"A Plume book."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276).

ISBN

• 0452260116
• 9780452260115
• 0329064819
• 9780329064815

LCCN

87005809

OCLC

15366961

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