Jazz

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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 from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.

'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

'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**

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781784877224
Published: August 2024

Number of pages: 256
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 16 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing