Writer of introduction statement from cover

"In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged waiter who moonlights as a 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. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession ... brings us back and forth in time, from the American South to Harlem, as a narrative is assembled from the histories, hopes, fears, and jealousies of her characters."--

"First Vintage International edition, June 2004"--Title page verso

"Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ... New York, in 1992"--Title page verso

"Introduction copyright © 2026"--Title page verso

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Young, Kevin, 1970- writer of introduction.

African Americans -- Fiction

Crimes of passion -- Fiction

Middle-aged persons -- Fiction

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction

Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction

Psychological fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Fiction.

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