Name: Jazz (in English)
Price: 13.75 USD
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Author: Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9781400076215

Type

Physical Book

Author

Toni Morrison

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5 x 13.1 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

1400076218

ISBN13

9781400076215

Synopsis "Jazz (in English)"

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. With a foreword by the author. "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." --GlamourIn 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" (People). "The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women." --The New York Times Book Review

Toni Morrison

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(Ohio, 1931 - Nueva York, 2019) Chloe Ardelia Wofford, conocida bajo el seudónimo Toni Morrison, es una narradora afroamericana. Alternó su trabajo de profesora de Humanidades en la Universidad de Princeton con la actividad literaria. En sus obras planteó la problemática de la población negra en Estados Unidos, en especial la situación de las mujeres. En 1993 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Murió en agosto de 2019 en el pequeño pueblo neoyorquino de Grand View-on-Hudson a los ochenta y ocho años de edad.

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