Morrison, Toni - Jazz
€ 12,95
Auteur: Toni Morrison
Titel: Jazz
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Vintage Publishing
Afmetingen: 129x198x16 mm
Gewicht: 182
ISBN: 9780099750918
Jaar: 2016
Bindwijze: Paperback
Pagina's: 256
Genre: Fictie, Literatuur, Historisch
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Titel: Jazz
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Vintage Publishing
Afmetingen: 129x198x16 mm
Gewicht: 182
ISBN: 9780099750918
Jaar: 2016
Bindwijze: Paperback
Pagina's: 256
Genre: Fictie, Literatuur, Historisch
Beschrijving:
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
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.
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.
`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
`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
`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
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
