Jazz

<p><b><i>'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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 <i>Jazz</i> brings us back and forth in time in a narrative assembled from the hopes fears and realities of black urban life.<br><br><b>VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. </b></p>