{"product_id":"jazz","title":"Jazz","description":"\u003cb\u003eJoe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\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' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\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' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eBELOVED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e**Winner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Jazz","offer_id":46339535765701,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-78487-722-4.jpg?v=1780986396","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/jazz","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}