Jazz

Zusatztext “Wonderful. . . . A brilliant! daring novel. . . . Every voice amazes.” — Chicago Tribune “She may be the last classic American writer! squarely in the tradition of Poe! Melville! Twain and Faulkner.” — Newsweek “[A] masterpiece. . . . She has moved from strength to strength until she has reached the distinction of being beyond comparison.” — Entertainment Weekly “Thrillingly written . . . seductive. . . . Some of the finest lyric passages ever written in a modern novel.” — Chicago Sun-Times “A compelling blend of heart and language. . . . Resounds with passion.” — The Boston Globe “Marvelous. . . . Morrison is perhaps the finest novelist of our time.” — Vogue “The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to black women.” —Edna O’Brien! The New York Times Book Review “She captures that almost indistinguishable mixture of the anxiety and rapture of expectation—that state of desire where sin is just another word for appetite.” — San Francisco Chronicle “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.” — Glamour “She is the best writer in America. Jazz! for sure; but also Mozart.” —John Leonard! National Public Radio “A masterpiece. . . . A sensuous! haunting story of various kinds of passion. . . . Mesmerizing.” — Cosmopolitan “Lyrically brooding. . . . One accepts the characters of Jazz as generalized figures moving rhythmically in the narrator’s mind.” — The New York Times “Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold! sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious.” — People Informationen zum Autor Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from  The Bluest Eye  (1970) to  God Help the Child  (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. Klappentext 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. "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 "Transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious." -People Leseprobe Sth, I know that woman. She used to live with a flock of birds on Lenox Avenue. Know her husband, too. He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going. When the woman, her name is Violet, went to the funeral to see the girl and to cut her dead face they threw her to the floor and out of the church. She ran, then, through all that snow, and when she got back to her apartment she took the birds from their cages and set them out the windows to freeze or fly, including the parrot that said, "I love you." The snow she ran through was so windswept she left no footprints in it, so for a time nobody knew exactly where on Lenox Avenue she lived. But, like me, they knew who she was, who she had to be, because they knew that her husband, Joe Trace, was the one who shot the girl. There was never anyon...

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.06.2004
• EAN: 9781400076215
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7621-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature