Jazz : a novel /
Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019
Jazz : a novel / Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International, 2004. - xix, 229 p. ; 21 cm.
In 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. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life.
1400076218 (pbk.) 9781400076215 (pbk.)
Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 --Crítica e interpretación
African Americans--Fiction.
Crimes of passion--Fiction.
Middle-aged persons--Fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novela estadounidense
Literatura estadounidense
Premios Nobel de Literatura--1993.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Quartier de Harlem--Romans.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS 3563 / M882j 2004
813.54
Jazz : a novel / Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International, 2004. - xix, 229 p. ; 21 cm.
In 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. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life.
1400076218 (pbk.) 9781400076215 (pbk.)
Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019 --Crítica e interpretación
African Americans--Fiction.
Crimes of passion--Fiction.
Middle-aged persons--Fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novela estadounidense
Literatura estadounidense
Premios Nobel de Literatura--1993.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Quartier de Harlem--Romans.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS 3563 / M882j 2004
813.54