Inscribed by the author in the year of publication in black ink to the title page: ‘Love to you Edythe & good luck always Toni 9.16.77’.
The Song of Solomon brought Morrison to national attention, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. The novel draws on stories and myths that Morrison had been told as a child about “black people, black slaves, who came to the United States, and under certain circumstances […] would fly back to Africa”, adapting these stories to create a narrative about liberation from the “cultural prison” of societal constructs in place of a “geographical escape back to Africa”.
A near fine copy, spine panel of jacket lightly sunned with minor rubbing at head, short closed tear at foot of front panel.
