Jazz by Toni Morrison (English) Paperback Book

Description: Jazz by Toni Morrison 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.... Morrisons voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of Americas outstanding post-war writers GuardianJoe 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 TimesBY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVEDWinner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction Notes First published in 1992, this novel, which follows the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved, is set in 1920s Harlem. The storylines focus on the ancestral history of a man and woman, and on the devastating consequences of the mans affair with a younger woman. Back Cover Joe Trace - In his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, 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. Jazz is the story of a triangle of passion, jealousy, murder and redemption, of sex and spirituality, of slavery and liberation, country and city, of being male and female, African American, and above all being human. Author Biography 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, Americas highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight. Review "A great storyteller" Guardian "Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past, not in fiction today... Morrisons voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of Americas outstanding post-war writers... A great storyteller, her characters have amazing and terrible pasts - they must find them out, or be haunted by them" Guardian "Morrisons writing of a black romance pays its debt to blues music, the rhythms and the melancholy pleasures of which she has so magically transformed into a novel" London Review of Books "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women" New York Times Book Review "Wonderful... A brilliant, daring novel... Every voice amazes" Chicago Tribune Promotional In the afterglow of triumph - her widely celebrated, Pultizer Prize-winning bestseller, Beloved - Toni Morrision moves to even higher ground. JAZZ is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profund love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style. Kirkus UK Review Evoking the world of black Harlem in the 1920s and the birth of jazz, this tale of an ageing man who kills his young lover is a great novel from a formidable writer. She combines a lucidity that makes it such a pleasure to read with a depth that forces the reader to evaluate and re-evaluate American history through the eyes of the black community. Morrison, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, writes with a forceful beauty and clarity of vision. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review Morrison, in her sixth novel, enters 1926 Harlem, a new black world then ("safe from fays [whites] and the things they think up"), and moves into a love story - with a love that could clear a space from the past, give a life or take one. At 50, Joe Trace - good-looking, faithful to wife Violet, also from Virginia poortimes - suddenly tripped into a passionate affair with Dorcas, 18: "one of those deep-down spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going." Then Violet went to Dorcass funeral and cut her dead face. But before Joe met Dorcas, and before her death and before Violet, in her torn coat, scoured the neighborhood looking for reasons, looking for her own truer identity, images of the past burned within all three: Violets mother, tipped out of her chair by the men who took everything away, and her death in a well; for Joe, the hand of the "wild" woman, his mother, that never really found his. And all of the child Dorcass dolls burned up with her mother and her childhood. Truly, the new music of Harlem - from clicks and taps of pleasure to the thud of betrayed marching black veterans with their frozen faces - "had a complicated anger in it." Were Joe and Violet substitutes for each other, for a need known and unmet? At the close, a new link is forged between them with another Dorcas. One of Morrisons richest novels yet, with its weave of city voices, tough and tender, public and private, and a flight of images that sweep up the world in a heartbeat: the narrator (never identified) contemplates airships in a city sky as they "swim below cloud foam...like watching a private dream....That was what [Dorcass] hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret." In all, a lovely novel - lyrical, searching, and touching. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text A great storyteller Review Quote A great storyteller Promotional "Headline" Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved , Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Details ISBN0099750910 Author Toni Morrison ISBN-10 0099750910 ISBN-13 9780099750918 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Pages 256 Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint Vintage Language English UK Release Date 2001-12-06 Year 2001 Publication Date 2001-12-06 AU Release Date 2001-12-06 NZ Release Date 2001-12-06 Edited by Christoph H. Lampert Birth 1903 Death 1966 Affiliation IST Austria Position Researcher Qualifications PsyD Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Alternative 9781448105014 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:564388;

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