Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Jazz /

Morrison, Toni.

Jazz / - 1st trade ed. - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992. - 229 p. ; 22 cm.

In Harlem, 1926, Joe Trace, a door-to-door salemsan in his fifties, kills his teenage lover. At the funeral, his wife Violet slashes the dead girl's face and then desperately searches to find why Joe was unfaithful. The profound love story is immersed in the sights and sounds of Black urban life during the Jazz Age.

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Crimes of passion--Fiction.
Middle-aged persons--Fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.


Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.


Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.

PS3563.O8749 / J38 1992

813/.54