From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.
"As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." -Glamour
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse.
"Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." -People
| ISBN: | 9781400076215 |
| Publication date: | 8th June 2004 |
| Author: | Toni Morrison |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 229 pages |
| Series: | Vintage International |
| Primary Genre | Historical Fiction |
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From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author."As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved....
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
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Jazz was written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Jazz has 229 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage International series
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