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Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992, Hardcover) 1st Trade Edition
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- “Light wear...Priced clipped”
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Age Level
- Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Modified Item
- No
- ISBN
- 9780679411673
- Book Title
- Jazz
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- African American / General, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Weight
- 15.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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In the afterglow of a clean triumph--her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Beloved --Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style. It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, "when all the wars are over and there will never be another one...At last, at last, everything's ahead...Here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things-nobody-could-help stuff." But amid the euphoric decisiveness, a tragedy ensues among people who had train-danced into the City, from points south and west, in search of promise. Joe Trace--in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband--shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas ("Everything was like a picture show to her"). At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, herself a hairdresser--who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, and who talks mostly to birds--tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. In a dazzling act of jazz-like improvisation, moving seamlessly in and out of past, present, and future, a mysterious voice--whose identity is a matter of each reader's imagination--weaves this brilliant fiction, at the same time showing how its blues are informed by the brutal exigencies of slavery. Richly combining history, legend, reminiscence, this voice captures as never before the ineffable mood, the complex humanity, of black urban life at a moment in our century we assumed we understood. Jazz is an unprecedented and astonishing invention, a landmark on the American literary landscape--a novel unforgettable and for all time.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679411674
ISBN-13
9780679411673
eBay Product ID (ePID)
964107
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jazz
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
African American / General, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.O8749
Reviews
"Wonderful. . . . A brilliant, daring novel. . . . Every voice amazes." -Chicago Tribune "She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner." -Newsweek "[A] masterpiece. . . . She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison." -Entertainment Weekly "Thrillingly written . . . seductive. . . . Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel." -Chicago Sun-Times "A compelling blend of heart and language. . . . Resounds with passion." -The Boston Globe "Marvelous. . . . Morrison is perhaps the finest novelist of our time." -Vogue "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women." -Edna O'Brien,The New York Times Book Review "She captures that almost indistinguishable mixture of the anxiety and rapture of expectation-that state of desire where sin is just another word for appetite." -San Francisco Chronicle "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer PrizewinningBeloved.. . . Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." -Glamour "She is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart." -John Leonard, National Public Radio "A masterpiece. . . . A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion. . . . Mesmerizing." -Cosmopolitan "Lyrically brooding. . . . One accepts the characters ofJazzas generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator's mind." -The New York Times "Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." -People From the Trade Paperback edition., "Wonderful. . . . A brilliant, daring novel. . . . Every voice amazes." -Chicago Tribune "She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner." -Newsweek "[A] masterpiece. . . . She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison." -Entertainment Weekly "Thrillingly written . . . seductive. . . . Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel." -Chicago Sun-Times "A compelling blend of heart and language. . . . Resounds with passion." -The Boston Globe "Marvelous. . . . Morrison is perhaps the finest novelist of our time." -Vogue "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women." -Edna O'Brien, The New York Times Book Review "She captures that almost indistinguishable mixture of the anxiety and rapture of expectation-that state of desire where sin is just another word for appetite." -San Francisco Chronicle "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prizewinning Beloved. . . . Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." -Glamour "She is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart." -John Leonard, National Public Radio "A masterpiece. . . . A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion. . . . Mesmerizing." -Cosmopolitan "Lyrically brooding. . . . One accepts the characters of Jazz as generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator's mind." -The New York Times "Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." -People From the Trade Paperback edition., "Wonderful. . . . A brilliant, daring novel. . . . Every voice amazes." - Chicago Tribune "She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner." - Newsweek "[A] masterpiece. . . . She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison." - Entertainment Weekly "Thrillingly written . . . seductive. . . . Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel." - Chicago Sun-Times "A compelling blend of heart and language. . . . Resounds with passion." - The Boston Globe "Marvelous. . . . Morrison is perhaps the finest novelist of our time." - Vogue "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women." -Edna O'Brien, The New York Times Book Review "She captures that almost indistinguishable mixture of the anxiety and rapture of expectation-that state of desire where sin is just another word for appetite." - San Francisco Chronicle "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prizewinning Beloved. . . . Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." - Glamour "She is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart." -John Leonard, National Public Radio "A masterpiece. . . . A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion. . . . Mesmerizing." - Cosmopolitan "Lyrically brooding. . . . One accepts the characters of Jazz as generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator's mind." - The New York Times "Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." - People From the Trade Paperback edition., "Wonderful. . . . A brilliant, daring novel. . . . Every voice amazes." - Chicago Tribune "She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner." - Newsweek "[A] masterpiece. . . . She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison." - Entertainment Weekly "Thrillingly written . . . seductive. . . . Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel." - Chicago Sun-Times "A compelling blend of heart and language. . . . Resounds with passion." - The Boston Globe "Marvelous. . . . Morrison is perhaps the finest novelist of our time." - Vogue "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women." -Edna O'Brien, The New York Times Book Review "She captures that almost indistinguishable mixture of the anxiety and rapture of expectation-that state of desire where sin is just another word for appetite." - San Francisco Chronicle "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prizewinning Beloved. . . . Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." - Glamour "She is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart." -John Leonard, National Public Radio "A masterpiece. . . . A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion. . . . Mesmerizing." - Cosmopolitan "Lyrically brooding. . . . One accepts the characters of Jazz as generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator's mind." - The New York Times "Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." - People
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
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Lccn
91-058555
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
20
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