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Jazz

By Toni Morrison
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Jazz by Toni Morrison is a richly woven narrative set in 1920s Harlem, exploring themes of love, betrayal, and redemption within an African American community. The story follows Joe and Violet, a couple steeped in passion and turmoil, and unfolds through a multi-layered narrative that reveals the complex interconnections of their lives. Morrison's evocative prose brings vibrancy and depth to the characters, delving deep into their emotional landscapes amidst the backdrop of a vibrant jazz age.
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You might enjoy this book if you are captivated by evocative storytelling that explores themes of love, betrayal, and redemption set against the vibrant backdrop of 1920s Harlem. The intricate narrative weaves through the lives of complex characters, drawing you into their emotional worlds and the rhythm of the jazz age. With its rich prose and profound insights, lovers of deeply layered fiction are likely to find it compelling.

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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.

In the afterglow of triumph - her widely celebrated, Pultizer Prize-winning bestseller, Beloved - Toni Morrision moves to even higher ground. JAZZ is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profund love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.

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Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.

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, a door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products and an 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.

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Jazz by Toni Morrison is praised for its intense, poetic storytelling and its ability to transcend themes of colour and creed. Critics celebrate her portrayal of profound characters with complex pasts, while also highlighting her skill in transforming blues music rhythms and melancholy into the novel's narrative. The book's exploration of injustice faced by black women and Morrison's authoritative world-building receive high acclaim, with her narrative style and vocal characters leaving readers thoroughly impressed.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780099750918

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 December 2001

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 182g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.

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