Jazz
New York : Knopf, 1992.
Format: Book
Description: 229 pages ; 22 cm
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, 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. This novel "transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious" ( People ).
"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women." -- The New York Times Book Review
"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. This novel "transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious" ( People ).
"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women." -- The New York Times Book Review
ISBN:
0679411674
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Morrison | Sandhills Indoors | Fiction | In |
F Morrison | St. Andrews Indoors | Fiction | In |