{"product_id":"9780099750918","title":"Jazz","description":"Author: Morrison, Toni\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099750918\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Jan 2002\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNobel Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoe 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eBELOVED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150435266718,"sku":"UBD-9780099750918","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780099750918.jpg?v=1786965024","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780099750918","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}