Books
June, 1992
The deep bluesy sadness of Toni Morrison's new novel, Jazz (Knopf), wails out of the pages of this book as expressively as a tenor saxophone. The setting is 1926 Harlem, where Joe and Violet Trace have come to escape the hardships of segregation in Virginia. They succumb immediately to the jazz rhythms of "the City" (practically a character of its own in this book) and settle on Lenox Avenue. He is a door-to-door salesman for Cleopatra beauty products; she is an unlicensed beautician w...
