Jazz

By: Toni Morrison

Published June 8th 2004 by Vintage (first published 1992)

Category: Arts

Pages: 229 pages

ISBN: 9781400076215

Description:
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.