Jazz by Toni Morrison [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]
Jazz by Toni Morrison
FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1992] ALFRED A. KNOPF
Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.
Dust jacket is in great shape with some light shelf and edge wear.
Book itself is clean, tight and reads like new.
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.
Jazz is the story of a triangle of passion, jealousy, murder, and redemption, of sex and spirituality, of slavery and liberation, of country and city, of being male and female, African American, and above all of being human. Like the music of its title, it is a dazzlingly lyric play on elemental themes, as soaring and daring as a Charlie Parker solo, as heartbreakingly powerful as the blues. It is Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison at her best.