Jazz

Name: Jazz
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9781784878115
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By Toni Morrison

Series: Vintage Deco

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Jazz by Toni Morrison explores the vibrant yet tumultuous world of 1920s Harlem, weaving a complex narrative centred around a love triangle. The story delves into themes of passion, betrayal, and the search for identity as it follows the lives of Joe and Violet Trace, whose marriage becomes complicated after Joe's affair with a younger woman. Through lyrical prose, Morrison captures the rhythms of jazz, painting a vivid picture of a community filled with soulful resilience and historical depth.
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might like this book if you're drawn to rich, poetic storytelling that vividly captures the complexities of love, betrayal, and redemption against the backdrop of 1920s Harlem. The narrative's jazz-like rhythm, with its improvisations and shifts, is perfect for readers who appreciate intricate character development and emotional depth.

Jazz

Morrison's eagerly awaited new novel, "Jazz," is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.

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VINTAGE DECO - Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

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.

VINTAGE DECO - Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

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Renowned as a compelling storyteller, Toni Morrison in Jazz crafts an intense narrative that resonates with the profundity typically found in historical poetry. Celebrated for capturing the essence of blues music, Morrison intricately weaves romance and melancholy into the fabric of the novel. Her ability to evoke rich, authoritative worlds, coupled with a stark commentary on the injustices faced by black women, is widely praised.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784878115

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 207g

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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