Jazz by Toni Morrison - 1992-04-07

New York: Random House, 1992. Unbound. Fine. Audiobook. Fine, unopened. Abridged on two cassettes, read by the author.

In original shrink-wrap. Taking a cue from Dante's Purgatorio, Jazz is considered by many to be Morrison's most difficult novel and, according to the author, embodies 'the modernity that jazz anticipated and directed, and . . . its unreasonable optimism.' Its iconic first line—'Sth, I know that woman.'—came almost unconsciously from a long-fought battle to find the voice of the book's narrator, as Morrison registered her own frustration in what Morgan Parker calls 'a self-disgusted tooth-suck and petty pencil toss.' Morrison herself recreates that tooth-suck on the audiocassette, which features packaging adapted from R. D. Scudellari's first edition design by Robert Anthony.

Random House. Used - Acceptable.

cassette. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.