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.
| ISBN: | 9780099750918 |
| Publication date: | 6th December 2001 |
| Author: | Toni Morrison |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 229 pages |
| Primary Genre | Historical Fiction |
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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.
Jazz features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Sagas, Street fiction / urban fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes
Jazz is available in Paperback, Ebook
Jazz was written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage an imprint of Vintage Publishing
Jazz has 229 pages
£8.99
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