{"product_id":"9780099750918","title":"Jazz","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Morrison, Toni \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 31\/12\/2000,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099750918,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697551441964,"sku":"9780099750918","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099750918.jpg?v=1722596816","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780099750918","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}