Jazz by Toni Morrison Paperback Book

Description: Jazz by Toni Morrison 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.... Morrisons voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of Americas outstanding post-war writers GuardianShe 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 BELOVED**Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction** FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New 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 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 * Details ISBN1784877220 Author Toni Morrison Pages 256 Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781784877224 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Publication Date 2024-08-01 UK Release Date 2024-08-01 ISBN-10 1784877220 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:168718551;

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