{"product_id":"jazz-by-toni-morrison-9780099750918","title":"Jazz","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobel Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJazz\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003e- Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoe Trace, in his fifties, a door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products and an erstwhile devoted husband, shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous eighteen-year-old Dorcas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 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, \u003cem\u003eJazz\u003c\/em\u003e brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears, and realities of black urban life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\" \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic;\"\u003e- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46495059542252,"sku":"9780099750918","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13598013482223.jpg?v=1748467773","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/jazz-by-toni-morrison-9780099750918","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}