![]() ![]() He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going. She used to live with a flock of birds on Lenox Avenue. ![]() The nameless narrator tries to tell us everything right at the start: "Sth, I know that woman. Indeed, it's a book I found myself reading aloud - even when no one else was around to listen - just for the sheer pleasure of hearing the musical, yet perfectly natural and colloquial, sound of the never-to-be-identified voice that narrates the story. But "Jazz" is a book I found hard to put down. Reviewing scores of novels every year can induce a tendency to feel a little jaded. But in her sixth novel, Jazz, she demonstrates once again that she is one of the most brilliant and inventive American novelists writing today. It was hard to imagine what Toni Morrison would do for an encore after her stunning achievement in "Beloved," her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the psychic scars of slavery. ![]()
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