Jazz

Toni Morrison

ISBN 10: 1400076218 / ISBN 13: 9781400076215

Published by Random House LLC US Jun 2004, 2004

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Neuware -From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the 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." GlamourIn 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. "Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." People 272 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jazz
• Publisher: Random House LLC US Jun 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400076218
• ISBN 13: 9781400076215
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 204W x 131H x 20D millimeters 204 millimeters width by 131 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 217 grams

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Synopsis

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the 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.

“Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious.” —People

About the Author

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.