![]() ![]() With anger at his wife, his son and his murderous past. His mother, Ruth, is almost catatonic from libidinal repression. ![]() ![]() coming of age in a fair-sized Midwestern city, is called Milkman because he was seen suckling at his mother's breast long after boyhood. Underground, Toni Morrison's Milkman flies. It isĬloser in spirit and style to "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The Woman Warrior." It builds, out of history and language and myth, to music. It may be foolishly fussed over as a Black Novel, or a Woman's Novel, or an Important New Novel by a Black Woman. Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" belongs in this small company of special books that are a privilege to review. To give away my advantage in moral and esthetic realms. About them, a reviewer tends to feel touch and possessive - as if, together, they constitute much of what I know, and think, and to give away their magic to strangers is somehow Tin Drum" for a radio station in California and to review John Cheever's "Bullet Park," Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior"įor the Times. I was permitted to review Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" for my college newspaper to review Joseph Heller's "Catch-22," Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook" and Gunter Grass's "The Of the 20 years or so I've spent pretending to be an adult, only five have been devoted to book reviewing. ![]()
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