Jazz

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• New Romance

  Within the first half-page of Toni Morrison’s novel, an 18-year-old girl has been shot dead by her middle-aged lover, and his wife has been manhandled from the funeral after attempting to cut the dead girl’s face with a knife. Both events are witness ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

• Life Studies

  The facts are simple and brutal, you can read them any day in the newspapers. If you read them and if you feel they are published for you. The suggestion that news in America is often just white news, or news for whites, occurs again and again in Ton ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

4 Reviews

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  How far can you go for love?

  Check out what I wrote in my blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2011/11/jazz-toni-m…

  I will never forget the beauty of this book that starts with the statement that the heroine was an ugly young girl. She was young and ugly, and started to sleep with this old and disgusting marr ... (continue)

  Check out what I wrote in my blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2011/11/jazz-toni-m…

  I will never forget the beauty of this book that starts with the statement that the heroine was an ugly young girl. She was young and ugly, and started to sleep with this old and disgusting married man that finally got obsessed with her and ended up wounding her on the shoulder with a small firearm. She didn't want anything to do with him and she decided that it was better to die than to give up, so she let herself bleed to death. FInally, the man's wife has to go out to pray for another young girl for her husband, because he is about to die of sadness. This is a love story, a very beautiful love story and the lengths people are able to go for it.

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  ariadna73 said on Nov 2, 2011 | Add your feedback

• A book that jazz

  This is a book where the incident is first summed up in a few sentences in the first page. What goes on next is the fascinating accounts of the incident and its aftermath by narrator and the voices of the characters, resembling a piece of jazz music where trading solos is a part of the story-telling ... (continue)

  This is a book where the incident is first summed up in a few sentences in the first page. What goes on next is the fascinating accounts of the incident and its aftermath by narrator and the voices of the characters, resembling a piece of jazz music where trading solos is a part of the story-telling. The author assigns each character a space of their own to release their emotions. Altogether they take us deep into the history of America in the 20s.

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  minneville said on Nov 18, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  A haunting tale about the marriage of Joe and Violet Trace, a relationship where the couple are not always in 'rhythm' with each other.
  The transition to a city life style was a difficult one for this African American couple having come from a slavery background.

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  Lindyloumac said on Sep 28, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  I read this at the apartment in the early-mid 1990s. I do not recall the story much. I was in my Toni Morrison period. I think this was the last of her books I read.

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  Batona said on Apr 23, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 256 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 1400076218
• ISBN-13: 9781400076215
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Jun 08, 2004
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding and Others
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