num_pages: 229
description: ‘
  Jazz
 blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.... Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers’ 
  Guardian
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. 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 BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
language: English
title: Jazz
titlecomplete: Jazz
characters: Joe Trace, Violet "Violent" Trace, Dorcas
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Race, African American
ratings_count: 30483
places: Virginia, Harlem, New York City, New York
series: Beloved Trilogy
publisher: Vintage