This novel reates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world readers enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr.; the day on which lonely Robert Smith attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An official Oprah Winfrey's "The Books That Help Me Through" selection - The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.
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ISBN–13: 9781400033423
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: Jun-2004
Pages: 352
Lexile Level: 0870
Ages: NA - NA
BISAC Categories: Literary , Fantasy Contemporary , Magical Realism