This is an auction for JAZZ by Toni Morrison.

"Morrison's authoritative novel - a Book of the Month Club main selection and a 17-week bestseller in hardback - tells the story of three intersecting tragic lives, and adroitly uses the motif of jazz to make palpable the feel and excitement of Harlem in the 1920s."

• Publishers Weekly (US)

"What could successfully follow Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling work Beloved? How about Jazz , a lyrical and haunting novel that opens tragically after Joe Trace, a salesman of women's beauty products, has shot his teenage lover Dorcas and his wife Violet has attempted to mutilate the young women's corpse during the funeral? The vision of Morrison's nameless narrator frames this love story, and this anonymous voice slowly draws readers into the rhythm of the city, specifically Harlem, where jazz casts bewitching spells on people's psyches. (Some would call its influence evil.) Readers who have been waiting for Beloved 's successor will not be disappointed. Morrison has demonstrated again why she is unequivocally one of the finest contemporary writers in America."

• Library Journal (US)

“A masterpiece. . . . She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison.”

• Entertainment Weekly (US)

From Wikipedia:

"Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels THE BLUEST EYE, SONG OF SOLOMON, and BELOVED, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. In 2001 she was named one of the "30 Most Powerful Women in America" by Ladies' Home Journal."

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Paperback 1993.

318 pages.

Good condition.

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