Jazz
by:
Toni Morrison (author)
It is 1926 and winter grips Harlem. Joe Trace and his wife have decided, unbeknown to each other, to murder Dorcus, a girl young enough to be Joe's daughter. But when their intended victim escapes them by dying, Joe and Violet are stunned by what they have done. The story is read by the author.
It is 1926 and winter grips Harlem. Joe Trace and his wife have decided, unbeknown to each other, to murder Dorcus, a girl young enough to be Joe's daughter. But when their intended victim escapes them by dying, Joe and Violet are stunned by what they have done. The story is read by the author.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780451177803 (0451177800)
Publish date: October 1st 1993
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 265
Edition language: Spanish
Series: Toni Morrison Trilogy (#2)
I could’ve started this review with Joe Trace. Joe Trace is searching for the narrator of this tale in the same way that he was searching for his mother “Wild” in this book. Sometimes, I felt like I needed a tracker to help me track down my own ideas about this book. At times, the book was so easy...
got lost in all the lovely words, loved getting lost. minor note but major emotions. narrative glides down perfect prose pathways and through poetic passages to different destinations, into one mind and out of another, into many minds, past future past future, man. who knows where the next road goes...
I am completely in love with Jazz. I think it has somehow immediately became my new favorite novel... ever. Head- or rather, heart- has exploded.
A short novel about an ill-fated love triangle in jazz-age Harlem that ends in a shooting. Morrison poetically reveals the characters' pasts and hidden griefs, their rural a/o small town origins and backstories that led them to the city.
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