Jazz
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the electric backdrop of 1920s Harlem, Toni Morrison's Jazz is a hypnotic meditation on love, loss, and obsession that pulses with the improvisational rhythms of the music that gives it its name. When middle-aged Joe Trace shoots his young lover Dorcas in a jealous rage, and his wife Violet disfigures the girl's corpse at her funeral, Morrison sets in motion a profound and haunting investigation into the passions that drive ordinary people to extraordinary acts of violence and tenderness. A Nobel Prize-winning masterwork, Jazz chronicles the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, weaving their hopes, heartbreaks, and reinventions into a rich tapestry of American identity. Morrison's prose mimics the very structure of jazz itself — syncopated, layered, and alive with call-and-response — as an unnamed narrator guides the reader through a world where the past is never truly silent. The second novel in Morrison's Beloved trilogy, it stands as a singular artistic achievement that will leave readers questioning the nature of storytelling itself.
Author: Toni Morrison
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the electric backdrop of 1920s Harlem, Toni Morrison's Jazz is a hypnotic meditation on love, loss, and obsession that pulses with the improvisational rhythms of the music that gives it its name. When middle-aged Joe Trace shoots his young lover Dorcas in a jealous rage, and his wife Violet disfigures the girl's corpse at her funeral, Morrison sets in motion a profound and haunting investigation into the passions that drive ordinary people to extraordinary acts of violence and tenderness. A Nobel Prize-winning masterwork, Jazz chronicles the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, weaving their hopes, heartbreaks, and reinventions into a rich tapestry of American identity. Morrison's prose mimics the very structure of jazz itself — syncopated, layered, and alive with call-and-response — as an unnamed narrator guides the reader through a world where the past is never truly silent. The second novel in Morrison's Beloved trilogy, it stands as a singular artistic achievement that will leave readers questioning the nature of storytelling itself.