European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Books harmonizing words tap out a winning Story in a jazz by David e. Anderson United press International jaz2 by Toni Morrison Alfred a. Knopf. Believe it jazz is an even better novel than the 1988 pulitzer prize winning beloved. Fans so taken with that Story however May have trouble adjusting to jazz set in the Harlem of the 1920s, with the new negro of Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance hovering in the background and the mood of Marcus Garvey and father divine parading around the edges. But Morrison a writing has become so Strong so assured that she can take the simple Story line of loves strange Way with people and Bend it reshape it turn it inside out upside Down blow it hot blow it Blue bring it to a chorus that is some of the Best writing on new York City since Thomas Wolfe lumbered through the streets in Early Dawn and make of it a Book that just wont quit. Its Winter three Days into the new year of 1926. Joe Trace a 50-Ycar-old, door to door Salesman of cosmetic products shoots to death Dorcas his teen aged Lover of three months. At the funeral his equally hard working wife Violet an unlicensed Hairdresser tries to disfigure the Corpse with a knife. Deliberately but nearly invisibly except in some of the lyrically Lovely passages on the City her prose docs not Call attention to itself using the structures of the blues to Tell her Story Morrison weaves a portrait of the present and past of the three protagonists and the ancestors whose own stories influence their own being. And while the brutality a More the consequences a of slavery and segregation Are Felt in almost every passage there is not a line of crude political polemics. The essential humanity and the always threatened dignity of her characters Shine through. In one sense this is a very Black Book. The experiences and the manner in which they Are mediated arc available Only to Blacks. Yet Morrison by giving her characters the fullest form of their Black identity makes of them people that we know within ourselves As does Dostoevsky Camus Mann and Hawthorne a characters fully available to us. Jazz is an incredibly affirming love Story and a profound and important a a a a he is for homicide by sue Grafton Fawcett Crest. Grafton a fans probably wish the alphabet were twice As Long. In this one of her series of lettered thrillers her heroine private detective Kinsey Millhone befriends a gang lords Girlfriend in order to unravel several crimes. Last year the new York times reviewer Nancy Dye called the Book a intelligent fast paced and filled with memorable a a a Good boys and dead girls and other essays by Mary Gordon Penguin. Novelist Mary Gordon explores topics ranging from literature and authors to the roman Catholic Church motherhood and abortion in this collection of 28 pieces. A through these essays the Reader understands that like the work of the writers and painters she most admires Mary Gordon a own writing is buttressed by a powerful moral vision a Wendy Martin wrote in the times Book review last a a the voice of America stories by Rick do Marinis Harper perennial. Many of these 15 stories Deal with the subject of Fidelity whether the is uie arises Between losers friends or individuals and their last sear the runes a Mower James him is i i i is Puli scr winning Toni Morrison has another Winner. Mcmanus culled it a a fierce telling often hilarious a a voices from Home by Neil Caudle Ballan Tine. Libby Lamport a 15-year-old child of divorce has to to define herself and her family in a Southern town where she has chosen to stay with her father a former local baseball hero. This is a an accomplished first novel full of compassion and wit and marvelous language a Alice Mcdermott said in the times in 1989.�?� a a i dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann Penguin. 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