Jazz

Jazz

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Author: Toni Morrison

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 256


Joe Trace Ð in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband Ð 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.
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Author: Toni Morrison

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 256


Joe Trace Ð in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband Ð 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.