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'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'

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.

VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

Jazz

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'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'Joe Trace - in his... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 06/10/2022
    ISBN13: 9781784878115, 978-1784878115
    ISBN10: 1784878111

    Number of Pages: 256

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'

    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.

    VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

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