An edition of Jazz (1992)

Jazz

a novel

1st Vintage International ed.
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An edition of Jazz (1992)

Jazz

a novel

1st Vintage International ed.
  • 3.3 (6 ratings) ·
  • 138 Want to read
  • 14 Currently reading
  • 14 Have read

It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, "when all the wars are over and there will never be another one... At last, at last, everything's ahead... Here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things-nobody-could-help stuff." But amid the euphoric decisiveness, a tragedy ensues among people who had train-danced into the City, from points south and west, in search of promise.

Joe Trace--in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband--shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas ("Everything was like a picture show to her"). At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, herself a hairdresser--who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, and who talks mostly to birds--tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse.

In a dazzling act of jazz-like improvisation, moving seamlessly in and out of past, present, and future, a mysterious voice--whose identity is a matter of each reader's imagination--weaves this brilliant fiction, at the same time showing how its blues are informed by the brutal exigencies of slavery. Richly combining history, legend, reminiscence, this voice captures as never before the ineffable mood, the complex humanity, of black urban life at a moment in our century we assumed we understood.

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Language
English
Pages
229

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Jazz
Jul 09, 2012, AWB
paperback in English
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Jazz: a novel
2004, Vintage International, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage International ed.
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Jazz
1993-04, Plume
in English
Cover of: Jazz
Jazz
1993-04, Plume
in English
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Jazz
1993-04, Plume
in English
Cover of: Jazz
Jazz
1993, Plume Books
in English
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Jazz
1993, Ediciones B
in English - 1a ed.
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Jazz
1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st trade ed.
Cover of: Jazz
Jazz
1992, Plume Books
in English
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Jazz
1992, Alfred A. Knopf
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O8749 J38 2004, PS3563.08749 J38, PS3563.O8749 J38 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 229 p. ;
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3382092M
Internet Archive
jazznovel00morr
ISBN 10
1400076218
LCCN
2004555326
OCLC/WorldCat
55647444
Library Thing
11833
Goodreads
11341

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