JAZZ PB
Εκδότης Vintage , ISBN 9781784877224
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At 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, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Περίληψη
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At 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, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Eκδότης Vintage
- ISBN 9781784877224
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100091606
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2024
- Σελίδες 256
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 350 gr