{"product_id":"jazz-9781400076215","title":"Jazz","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eBeloved.\u003c\/i\u003e... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear.\" --\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women.\"\u003ci\u003e --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1970) to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50575652389138,"sku":"9781400076215","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a03756b-d23b-4e1e-b3d0-36a019d2d1af.jpg?v=1731986087","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jazz-9781400076215","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}