Summary
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover. 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 fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784877224 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784877220 |
| Author: | Toni Morrison |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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A tale of love, death, beauty, murder and obsession…told in a free-form syncopated prose so rhythmic that you can almost imagine Nina Simone singing it – James Runcie * Week *
About The Author
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
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