Jazz

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 229. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari (priced £14.99 to front flap).

Signed by Author to title page at the 2008 Cheltenham Literature Festival.

An American Library Association Notable Book for 1993 and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection.

"He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going." A bittersweet triangle of passion, jealousy, murder, and redemption, set in 1920's Harlem. Author's sixth and own favourite amongst her novels, it forms the heart of her loose trilogy of narratives on African-American history, preceded by Beloved (1987), and book-ended by Paradise (1998).

Morrison was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her book Sula, the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom. "The deep bluesy sadness of this novel wails out of the pages as expressively as a saxophone." –Digby Diehl