Toni Morrison

<b>From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a&#160;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 realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.</b><br/><br/><b>"As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Beloved.</i>... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear." -<i>Glamour</i><br/></b><br/>In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe's wife, Violet, attacks the girl's corpse.&#160;This novel "transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious" (<i>People</i>).<i><br/><br/></i>"The author conjures up worlds with complete authority and makes no secret of her angst at the injustices dealt to Black women."<i> -<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br/></i>