Jazz -- Toni Morrison

<b>From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life.</b> <p/>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 novel "transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious" (<i>People</i>).<i> <p/></i>The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women."<i> --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br></i><br><br><b>Author:</b> Toni Morrison<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 06/08/2004<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.59lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.08h x 5.16w x 0.64d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781400076215<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 6<br><b>Point Value:</b> 11<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>68894 / Jazz<br><br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Ebony</i> 09/01/2004 pg. 30<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from <i>The Bluest Eye</i> (1970) to <i>God Help the Child</i> (2015). She received the