# Jazz

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- Book: [Jazz](https://www.bookquiver.com/toni-morrison/jazz) ([Jazz.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/toni-morrison/jazz.md))
- Authors: [Toni Morrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/toni-morrison)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9975-091-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2016-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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