Jazz

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.

Care este lumea pentru tine daca nu o poti inventa asa cum vrei tu? Joe Trace - la cincizeci de ani, vanzator din usa in usa de produse de frumusete Cleopatra, fost sot devotat - isi impusca iubitul de trei luni, impetuosul Dorcas, in varsta de optsprezece ani. La inmormantare, sotia sa hotarata si muncitoare, Violet, care este dat sa se poticneasca in crapaturi mentale intunecate, incearca cu un cutit sa desfigureze cadavrul.