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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. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black wo
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National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1977)
Friends of American Writers Award (Second First — Adult Literature — 1978)
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (1977)
Oprah's Book Club selection (1996)
Notable Books List (1977)
Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List (57 — 2009)
The Great American Novels (1977)
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1977