{"product_id":"jazz","title":"Jazz","description":"‘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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56928516440399,"sku":"9780099750918","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/jazz","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}