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Apr 1, 1992 · 33,568ratings2,689reviews. Kindle $13.99. 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.
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Apr 21, 1992 · One of Morrison's richest novels yet, with its weave of city voices, tough and tender, public and private, and a flight of images that sweep up the world in a heartbeat: the narrator (never identified) contemplates airships in a city sky as they swim below cloud foam...like watching a private dream....That was what [Dorcas's] hunger was like ...
Oct 20, 2022 · IN THE FOREWORD to the 2004 Vintage edition of “Jazz” (1992), Toni Morrison writes that it was her body that started the book — that the first lines, like so much of the best music, were born of...
Aug 2, 2021 · Jazz is the second book in Toni Morrison’s trilogy about African-American history. It follows on from Beloved and moves onto Paradise. Jazz takes us to Harlem in the 1920s and discusses the lives of a married couple and the woman who got in between them.
Jan 17, 2021 · In Jazz, Toni Morrison examines this definition of America by creating characters that can provide access to the experience of what it means to live in a space that is defined by the idea of opposition.
Aug 8, 2021 · Written not just to mimic jazz music but to embody it, Jazz is a novel mainly about three characters: Violet, her husband Joe, and the young girl named Dorcas whom Joe has an affair with. The story begins on the day of Dorcas’s funeral — Joe shot and killed her rather than lose her to disinterest.
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Jazz was Toni Morrison’s sixth novel, published five years after her previous work, Beloved. Each novel portrays a period in the history of Black people in America, with emphasis on culture over historic events.
