Jazz, for sure but also Mozart National Public Radio One accepts the characters of Jazz as generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator's mind New York Times 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 Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel Chicago Sun-TimesĪ compelling blend of heart and language. A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion. She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison Entertainment WeeklyĪ masterpiece. She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner Newsweek The more you listen, the more you crave to hear Glamour Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. Every voice amazes Chicago TribuneĪs rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women New York Times Book Review Morrison’s writing of a black romance pays its debt to blues music, the rhythms and the melancholy pleasures of which she has so magically transformed into a novel London Review of Books A great storyteller, her characters have amazing and terrible pasts - they must find them out, or be haunted by them Guardian
Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers. Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past, not in fiction today.
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