{"product_id":"9780099750918-jazz","title":"Jazz","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoe 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eBELOVED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943102296161,"sku":"9780099750918","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32163385.jpg?v=1737017539","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099750918-jazz","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}