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Jazz

By Toni Morrison
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Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, is one of the finest novelists of our times. Joe Trace, in his fifties, is a door-to-door salesman and erstwhile devoted husband who shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given... Read More
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Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, is one of the finest novelists of our times.

Joe Trace, in his fifties, is a door-to-door salesman and erstwhile devoted husband who 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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784877224

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 184g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

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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