Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison · 1977 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Macon Dead III, called Milkman, grows up moneyed and aimless in a Michigan town, hemmed in by a hard father, a starved mother and an aunt who lives outside all of it. A rumor of gold sends him south into Pennsylvania and Virginia, where he starts turning up names instead. The myth of flight reclaimed.

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Lineage

• reworks ↑ Daedalus and Icarus
  Greek myth · c. 600 BCE · Myth / Legend
• alludes to ↑ The Song of Songs
  Hebrew scripture · c. 300 BCE · Scripture

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