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' GuardianJoe 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 BELOVEDWinner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
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ISBN | 9781784877224 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Historical fiction, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century, FICTION / City Life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Relating to African American / Black American people, Harlem, c 1920 to c 1929, US South, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Random House UK |
Jahr | 20240801 |
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