{"product_id":"9780099750918","title":"Jazz - Toni Morrison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePassionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life. ‘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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toni Morrison","offers":[{"title":"256 pages \/ 06\/12\/2001 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57441614168439,"sku":"9780099750918","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780099750918.jpg?v=1779364410","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780099750918","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}