Jazz by Toni Morrison

Jazz by Toni Morrison

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 Times

BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED

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

A tale of love, death, beauty, murder and obsession..told in a free-form syncopated prose so rhythmic that you can almost imagine Nina Simone singing it -- James Runcie * Week *

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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ISBN 13	9781784877224
ISBN 10	1784877220
Title	Jazz
Author	Toni Morrison
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2024-08-01
Number of pages	256
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