Joe Trace, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband, shoots to death his lover of three months, 18 year old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Captures the complex humanity of black urban life.
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" 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
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" [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 Prize- winning "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 ofpassion. . . . 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
" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"" 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 Prize- winning "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 ofpassion. . . . 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
" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of several novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), and Love. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University.
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