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AUTHOR: TONI MORRISON...
Most of Jazz is meticulously particularized to this one night triangle of man, woman and girl, Morrison writes, "Violet thought about it all and sighed. 'I though it would be bigger than this. I knew it wouldn't last, but I did think it'd be bigger." But the tragedy between Violet and Joe and Dorcas is not big--not because it is not terrible, but because it is dwarfed by a collective experience of many terrible tragedies...
However miniatures this tragedy may be, Morrison's light hand deftly meshes myth and history and poetry. Her orchestration and craftsmanship create a "brilliant spot of blood...
...Morrison, who wrote the critically acclaimed novel Beloved, gave last year's William E. Massey lectures on the history of American civilization at Harvard. Those lectures, in addition to material she has used in her teaching at Princeton, make up the substance of the book...
Playing in the Dark, with its black-and-white cover photograph of Morrison, has a glossy, high profile look that most University publications do not have, Donald said...