Golden appears in both Joe's and Violet's histories. Golden Gray, a mixed-race man from the 19th century.Felice, a friend of Dorcas' who goes to the Trace household in search of answers.Alice enters into an unusual friendship with Violet.

A conservative Christian ashamed by her niece's behavior. Alice Manfred, Dorcas' aunt and guardian.Dorcas is inspired by a picture from The Harlem Book of the Dead (a collection of funeral photographs by James Van Der Zee). From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep. Dorcas, Joe's young lover, who is shot down at a party. Jazz By Toni Morrison By Toni Morrison By Toni Morrison By Toni Morrison By Toni Morrison.She is nicknamed 'Violent' because she assaulted the corpse of Joe’s lover with a knife at the funeral. Violet Trace, an unlicensed beautician.Set in 1926, at the height of the Harlem renaissance, it follows the lives of the Joe and Violet Vace, who have moved from the South to escape the hardships of segregation. Joe Trace, a door-to-door cosmetics salesman and the murderer of his young lover. 'The deep bluesy sadness of this novel wails out of the pages as expressively as a saxophone,' writes Digby Diehl of Toni Morrisons 1993 novel.In the novel, 'Morrison uses a device which is akin to the way jazz itself is played… The result is a richly complex, sensuously conveyed image of the events, the characters and moods.' Characters Jazz was Morrison’s most recently published work when she was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel forms the second part of Morrison's Dantesque trilogy on African-American history, beginning with Beloved (1987) and ending with Paradise (1997). The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid-19th-century American South. Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison.

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