ISBN Jazz book English Paperback 256 pages

‘
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,Jazzbrings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.
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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 YorkTimes
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OFBELOVED
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction