Jazz
Subtitle: a novel
By: Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author].
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage International; Vintage Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction; Crimes of passion -- Fiction; Middle-aged persons -- Fiction; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life.