Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel.' - Chicago Sun-Times 'A compelling blend of heart and language. She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison.' - Entertainment Weekly 'Thrillingly written. Every voice amazes.' - Chicago Tribune 'She may be the last classic American writer, squarely in the tradition of Poe, Melville, Twain and Faulkner.' - Newsweek ' masterpiece. Its rhythms are infectious.' -People From the Trade Paperback edition., 'Wonderful. 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. Mesmerizing.' -Cosmopolitan 'Lyrically brooding. A sensuous, haunting story of various kinds of passion. Jazz, for sure but also Mozart.' -John Leonard, National Public Radio 'A masterpiece.

The more you listen, the more you crave to hear.' -Glamour 'She is the best writer in America. Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. 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 Prizewinning Beloved. Resounds with passion.' -The Boston Globe 'Marvelous.

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