Acclaim for Toni Morrison’s JAZZ

“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 of passion…. 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

Toni Morrison

JAZZ

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019. /8uWb36oBd258rguS2NrErjhIvzEHYoBl9y2mstUmGH+z9OzeGWFbQFGJF1hmPsD