
Jazz
by Toni Morrison
Title:
Jazz
Author:
Toni Morrison
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9781784877224
EAN:
9781784877224
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
304
Dimensions (mm):
149 x 197 x 25
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.''Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.... Morrison''s voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America''s outstanding post-war writers'' Guardian''She wrote about what was difficult and what was necessary and in doing so she unearthed for a generation of people a kind of redemption, a kind of relief'' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, New York TimesBY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED**Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**




















