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Jazz Kindle Edition

by Toni Morrison (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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‘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 Times

BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

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    4 September 2014
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A tale of love, death, beauty, murder and obsession...told in a free-form syncopated prose so rhythmic that you can almost imagine Nina Simone singing it -- James Runcie ― Week

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First published in 1992, this novel, which follows the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Beloved", is set in 1920s Harlem. The storylines focus on the ancestral history of a man and woman, and on the devastating consequences of the man's affair with a younger woman.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00N3Q0RVU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Digital; New Ed edition (4 September 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 728 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 218 pages
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5.0 out of 5 stars Toni Morrison, Queen of Literature
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2021
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I compared this book with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ for A-Level English Literature coursework. It was a really enjoyable read, I love the Modernist inspirations in the free indirect style. It is also beautiful to finally have books that centre the black community of Harlem in the 1920s, since poc have typically been marginalised by the dominance of white, male voices in literature. The depth and wit of this short novel is fantastic, I couldn’t recommend it more highly. I think this book is massively underrated (it is definitely on par with Morrison’s more famous works).
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Anmol T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely astonishing.
Reviewed in India on 6 June 2020
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Breathtaking, witty and just sumptuous in its language. I laughed, cried and smiled throughout. Ms Morrison is incomparable. A league of her own.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Muy bueno
Reviewed in Spain on 4 August 2019
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Me ha gustado mucho la historia. El papel es de dudosa calidad
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully written and moving
Reviewed in Italy on 9 February 2013
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Written by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, "Jazz" is just like the music it tries to imitate: it goes up and down, backwards and forwards, taking the reader through the myths and the lives of at least three generations of Black Americans, each one with his/her own amazing story, starting with their meaningful names. And just like jazz, this novel never stops taking the reader aback, spinning a web of intricated relationships and meanings, defying him/her to guess its tune before it starts another one.
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Sal Paradise
5.0 out of 5 stars An Underappreciated Novel
Reviewed in the United States on 22 February 2003
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After having read this novel I can't believe all the negative reviews, most people claiming that the novel was too hard or difficult to follow. I've read 4 of Morrison's books (The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula and Beloved) and I'll have to say that enjoyed this one amensely and I pretty much read over a span of three days. It's not a difficult read, nor is it difficult to follow if you've read any of her before or read Hemmingway, Faulkner or Kerouac for that matter. On a second reading of any of Morrison's novels, you always come away with something new, as with any quality piece of literature. So I really don't buy into this idea that Morrison's novels, this one in particular are difficult to read.
This being said, I found this novel to be a great pleasure, a story that's simple enough about a middle-aged married black couple The Traces in "the City" during 1920's the husband Joe Trace has a fling with a young girl named Dorcas Manfred whom he later kills in the middle of party though the girl's Aunt/Guardian doesn't press charges and the wife Violet "Violent" Trace tries to disfigure the dead girl in the casket at her funeral. That's basically it without giving away the novel. There is an almost sensual use of language here that tells the stories behind the story that is common in Morrison's novels that gives Jazz that particular kind of flavor that distinguishes it from Morrison's other works and makes this novel more than a pleasure to read. I highly recommend it!
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