Jazz (9780099750918)

`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

Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas.

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.

`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 Times

BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

Product details

• Format Paperback | 256 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 16mm | 182g
• Publication date 07 Sep 2010
• Publisher Vintage Publishing
• Imprint VINTAGE
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 0
• ISBN10 0099750910
• ISBN13 9780099750918
• Bestsellers rank 10,654

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