Trumpet

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Paperback
1999
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Celebrated trumpeter Joss Moody has died and the jazz world is in mourning. But in death, Joss can no longer guard the secret he kept all his life, and Colman, his adoring son, must confront the truth: the man whom he believed to be his father was, in fact a woman.

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Celebrated trumpeter Joss Moody has died and the jazz world is in mourning. But in death, Joss can no longer guard the secret he kept all his life, and Colman, his adoring son, must confront the truth: the man whom he believed to be his father was, in fact a woman.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Edition: New
Publisher: Picador
Published: 27 Aug 1999
ISBN 10: 0330331469
ISBN 13: 9780330331463
Prizes: Winner of Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 1999 and Guardian Fiction Prize 1998. Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000 and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000.

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WINNER OF THE 1998 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE It has a humanity and sympathy which engaged me from start to finish. And its energy and directness made it a treat to read. . . . [Trumpet makes] us see that people apparently very unlike ourselves are in fact very much like ourselves. . . . Love is not usually such a triumphant idea in modern writing, but I think Jackie Kay makes it believably and vividly so. -- Ian Jack, Granta Kay spins a love story, a fairy tale, and a psychological thriller out of one deep secret. She has a great gift for delving inside sundry souls, making poetry of their quirks. At its best, her prose ripples like jazz and brims with exquisite insights. -- Andrea Ashworth, author of Once in a House on Fire Jackie Kay makes the unbelievable gloriously real. For a first novel this is remarkably assured, full of melody and tension. Each character is given a singing part, bouncing notes and harmonies off each other as Joss's story is teasingly, movingly revealed. ...Trumpet is a love story and a lament, beautifully told. -- Eithne Farry, Time Out A hypnotic story...about the walls between what is known and what is secret--. Spare, haunting, dreamlike. --- Time Splendid...[Kay's] imaginative leaps in story and language will remind some readers of a masterful jazz solo. --- The San Francisco Chronicle