Jazz : a novel / Toni Morrison ; with a new foreword by the author.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Vintage International, 2004Edition: First Vintage International editionDescription: xix, 229 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1400076218
- 9781400076215
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | MORRISON TONI | Available | 33111011028087 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.
"As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved. ... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." -- Glamour
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged 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 novel "transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious" ( People ).
"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ..., New York, in 1992"--Title page verso.
"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.