The story begins on the day of Dorcas’s funeral - Joe shot and killed her rather than lose her to disinterest. Written not just to mimic jazz music but to embody it, Jazz is a novel mainly about three characters: Violet, her husband Joe, and the young girl named Dorcas whom Joe has an affair with.
Jazz wasn’t my favorite of her novels so far, but I did still enjoy it. Where does that come from? How does that happen? I still find it difficult to believe that she was a real person who was literally, truly just this talented. It’s hard to give my thoughts on a Toni Morrison novel and feel like I have anything to say that hasn’t been said a hundred times before. A city like this one makes me dream tall and feel in on things.” Below is shadow where any blasé thing takes place: clarinets and lovemaking, fists and the voices of sorrowful women. In the top half I see looking faces and it’s not easy to tell which are people, which the work of stonemasons. “Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half.
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