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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400076215
ISBN: 1400076218
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 08, 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: June 08, 2004
Sales Rank: 22412
Studio: Vintage
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Product Description:
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.
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Set primarily in Harlem in 1926, when jazz was bursting forth from the traditions of gospel and blues, this 1992 novel is one of Morrison's most experimental and least accessible. Written from multiple points of view, it uses the patterns of jazz itself for its structure. A series of overarching themes connects the work, but these are seen in individual characterizations and episodes which flash backward and forward, twisting and turning as they connect, misconnect, change, and ultimately create ... Read More
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Sometimes these reviews are based more upon context (what else you recently read) rather than upon the reader's own tastes. I will try to avoid allowing this review from being tainted from the magic presented by other recently read novels.
For inexplicable reasons, I read this book within weeks of reading other African American great novels: "Their Eyes are Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston; "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker; and, "Go Tell it on the Mountain" by James Baldwin. This ... Read More
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Without a doubt, I know when I pick up a Morrison novel that I will be reading a deep and complexly woven story that forces you to think about life, all the while enjoying the storyline for what it is. Jazz is no exception.
Using recursive narration, we are able to let the tale unfold one chapter at a time. As we learn more about a character we move onto another, yet must look back a ways into their past to understand who and where they come from (recursive narration), before we can ... Read More
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Jazz is an interesting novel, and in some ways the characters ring truer than in her most acclaimed work, Beloved. The story unfolds in a totally brilliant way, we see the key event in the narrative from multiple points of view, and the character's perspective from many points in time. The narration is also deliberately self-conscious and at times humorous, though I was annoyed by her stream of consciousness at the book's end. Still, Morrison does an excellent job weaving character, moral ambiguity, ... Read More
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Jazz was a very interesting novel to read. its theme of violence makes the story very interesting. Morrisons interweaves allusions to racial violence into her story with a neitral tone that lets the historical facts speak for themselves. her descriptions of scenes are often filled with violence as she discusses buildings which a cut but a razorlike line of sunlight. even her narrative is violently constructed, but it keeps you interested in whats going to happen next. Toni morrison tells us what ... Read More
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