Jazz - [AUDIOBOOK] m4b | 82.07 MB | Author: Toni Morrison | Year: 2007
Description:
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Category:Fiction, Literature, Awards, American Fiction, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction, Literary Fiction, African American Fiction, 20th Century American Fiction, Historical Fiction, African Americans - Fiction & Literature, Women's Fiction, 20th Century African American Fiction - 70s, 80s, & 90s, 20th Century American Fiction - 1945-2000, 20th Century Historical Fiction - General & Miscellaneous, African American Fiction Classics, African Americans - Affairs of the Heart - Fiction, African Americans - Historical Fiction, African Americans - Urban Life - Fiction, Women - For Better, For Worse, Women vs. Society's Expectations, Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates->1991-2000