{"product_id":"song-of-solomon-9780394497846","title":"Song of Solomon","description":"\u003cp\u003eToni Morrisons Song of Solomon  a novel of large beauty and power  creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America  a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead  Jr. (known as Milkman)  son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man  Robert Smith  poised in blue silk wings  attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital  a black Icarus looking homeward...  We see Milkman growing up in his fathers money-haunted  death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother  beginning to move outward--through his profound love and combat with his friend Guitar...through Guitars mad and loving commitment to the secret avengers called the Seven Days...through Milkmans exotic  imprisoning affair with his love-blind cousin  Hagar...and through his unconscious apprenticeship to his mystical Aunt Pilate  who saved his life before he was born.  And we follow him as he strikes out alone; moving first toward adventure and then--as the unspoken truth about his family and his own buried heritage announces itself--toward an adventurous and crucial embrace of life.  This is a novel that expresses  with passion  tenderness  and a magnificence of language  the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict  the feelings and experience of all people wanting  and striving  to be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256735588405,"sku":"ByrdShop_0394497848","price":27.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780394497846.jpg?v=1779896474","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/song-of-solomon-9780394497846","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}