Jazz (Signed-Inscribed First Edition)

Morrison, Toni

ISBN 10: 0679411674 / ISBN 13: 9780679411673

Published by Knopf, 1992

About this Item

Knopf, New York: 1992. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful bright copy, clean and tight. Inscribed by author to prior owner on front end-paper with a fountain pen. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality Mylar jacket protector. Shipped in a well-padded box. Smoke-free shop.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jazz (Signed-Inscribed First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679411674
• ISBN 13: 9780679411673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

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 and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.