TY - BOOK AU - Morrison,Toni TI - Jazz: a novel SN - 1400076218 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Vintage International KW - African Americans KW - Fiction KW - Crimes of passion KW - Middle-aged persons KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) KW - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction N1 - "Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ..., New York, in 1992"--Title page verso N2 - "In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged waiter who moonlights as a door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession ... brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life"--Page 4 of cover ER -