A great storyteller

Guardian

<i>Jazz </i>blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past, not in fiction today.... Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers... A great storyteller, her characters have amazing and terrible pasts - they must find them out, or be haunted by them

Guardian

Morrison’s writing of a black romance pays its debt to blues music, the rhythms and the melancholy pleasures of which she has so magically transformed into a novel

London Review of Books

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The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women

New York Times Book Review

Wonderful... A brilliant, daring novel... Every voice amazes

Chicago Tribune

'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'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.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
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A great storyteller

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784878115
Publisert
2022-10-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
207 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
01, U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

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Om bidragsyterne

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.