’A COMPLEX, WONDERFULLY ALIVE AND IMAGINATIVE STORY--MS MORRISON HASWOVEN, AMONG GRITTY REALITIES OF HARDSHIP AND RESENTMENT,A GLITTERING STRAND OF FABLE’
--Daily Telegraph
’TONI MORRISON HAS WRITTEN A BRILLIANT PROSE TALE THAT SURVEYS NEARLY A CENTURY OF AMERICAN HISTORY AS IT IMPINGES ON A SINGLE FAMILY’
--New York Times Book Review
’TONI MORRISON’S SONG OF SOLOMON GRIPS AS A NOVEL OF EXTRAORDINARY TRUTH, WISDOM AND HUMOUR’
--Sunday Telegraph
’NO DREAMS OR TRICKS, NO POTIONS OR SUPERSTITIONS, NO ACCENT OR BETRAYAL WILL BE ALLOWED TO ESCAPE AS SHE WEAVES HER SPELL OF BLACK AMERICA SINGING ITS PAST’
--MELVYN BRAGG
’A FIRST-CLASS NOVEL...I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN’
--AUBERON WAUGH, Evening Standard
’FOLLOWING UP HER NOVELS THE BLUEST EYE AND SULk, MORRISON HAS PRODUCED A NOVEL ABOUT THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA THAT IS AS EXTRAORDINARY IN ITS IMAGINATIVE, DRAMATIC FEELING AS ROOTS... A SPELLBINDING TALE, SUPERBLY WRITTEN’
--Publishers Weekly
