Jazz

Toni Morrison

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Vintage
04 January 2002

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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, 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.

'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

By: Toni Morrison
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 182g
ISBN: 9780099750918
ISBN 10: 0099750910
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 January 2002
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She now divides her time between Rockland County, New York and Princeton, New Jersey. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

Reviews for Jazz

Evoking the world of black Harlem in the 1920s and the birth of jazz, this tale of an ageing man who kills his young lover is a great novel from a formidable writer. She combines a lucidity that makes it such a pleasure to read with a depth that forces the reader to evaluate and re-evaluate American history through the eyes of the black community. Morrison, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, writes with a forceful beauty and clarity of vision. (Kirkus UK)