“You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.”
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<b><br></b><b>'<i>Song of Solomon</i>...profoundly changed my life' Marlon James</b><br> <br> <b>Macon 'Milkman' Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood 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.</b><br> <br> In 1930s America Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned with escaping the familial tyranny of his own father. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group Macon goes home to the South, lured by tales of buried family treasure. But his odyssey back home and a deadly confrontation with Guitar leads to the discovery of something infinitely more valuable than gold- his past and the origins of his true self.<br> <b>'The story of Milkman Dead and Guitar had me in thrall' Salman Rushdie, <i>New York Times</i></b><br> <br> <b>BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF <i>BELOVED</i></b><br> <b><br> Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction</b>
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Toni Morrison
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“You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.”
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the on...”
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like t...”
“See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here,...”