Jazz
Jazzembraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s  Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams,Jazzsways with  a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but  gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel  of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners  hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of  this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this  urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so  many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and  the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love  "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the  feeling going."InJazz, time ebbs and flows like human  memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations  for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here  Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a  masterful storyteller.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.