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    <![CDATA[<em>Jazz</em> embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s  Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, <em>Jazz</em> sways with  a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.<p> Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of the migration of black southerners to Harlem; madly in love with each other and the idea of this  urban mecca, they &quot;traindanced into the city.&quot; 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 &quot;that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going.&quot; <p>In <em>Jazz</em>, 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.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Jazz" title=" Jazz"> Jazz</a> is one of the books I can't leave alone long enough to forget it before I must read it again--the only way I can break the habit is to give it away to someone and then not buy a copy until I just can't wait anymore. For my money the peak of Morrison's fiction to date, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Jazz" title=" Jazz"> Jazz</a> is in large part ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16319066">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;...and when she got back to her apartment she took the birds from their cages and set them out the windows to freeze or fly, including the parrot that said, 'I love you.'&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Maybe she thought she could solve the mystery of love that way.  Good luck and let me know.&quot;<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2938541">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Here we have a rather twisted love triangle consisting of Joe and Joe's wife, Violet (often referred to as Violent due to some of her actions), and Joe's young lover, Dorcas.  The narrative has more to do with jazz than the actual story, in that it flows musically (yet discordantly at times), remini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61584065">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison was the first book of hers that I read. I really enjoyed it so I decided to pick up Jazz. This was definitely a let down after Song of Solomon. <br/><br/>Most of the time I was reading this I felt like I was reading a college student's creative writing assignment o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59244475">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One line from this book got to me, as an example of Morrison's writing that just grabs you by the throat and makes you read it over and over: <br/><br/>&quot;Mama?  Is this where you got to and couldn't do it no more?  The place of shade without trees where you know you are not and never again wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46007667">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Superbly written, Jazz is the tragic yet hopeful story of Joe and Violet. Born down in Virginia in the late 1800s, they move to &quot;the city&quot; (never named, but I'm guessing New York) when they are in their thirties. Life there for them is more different than they ever imagined, and they chang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52048442">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[where do i begin? first of all, this novel challenged me in ways no other novel ever has. thematically, one goes through a journey of love that is painful, beautiful, crazy, intense, passionate and consuming. the concept of black women and loneliness is beautifully written and the images she creates...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71870721">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Toni Morrison is a great writer, however, I found this book to be a little bit too depressing for me.  I guess I'm more for justice and obviously that is not what this book is about.  More about the characters finding their inner-self, regardless of their actions.  I'm sure there is some far...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69205143">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When most cats try to make their prose sound like jazz, they just throw in a bunch of slick slang and don't use any commas. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved" title="Beloved by Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a> clearly understands the idiom of jazz music, twisting, morphing, reshaping, and repeating her language in a way that mimmicks the greatest horn players of the twe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22946454">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had expected Jazz to be about music or musicians, it but was more about the people whose lives were infused and touched with jazz. The sort of people whose story jazz would tell.<br/><br/>The name of the novel and the form are very much  interconnected. The book seems improvised as it goes, like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22695465">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have struggled a bit in deciding exactly what to say about this novel.  This is my third Morrison novel, and although I recognize her for her brilliance and her incredible style, I don’t yet know how I feel about all of her work.  Her work does stay with you for a bit after reading, and that in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19839203">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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