Jazz Morrison ToniPaperback
Jazz Morrison ToniPaperback From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the…
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Jazz Morrison ToniPaperback
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved.... With a foreword by the author.
The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." --GlamourIn 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. Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse.
This novel "transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms