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It's been five years since former trumpet star Ronnie Reboulet, a charismatic yet distant man, has picked up his horn. His companion, Betty Millard, herself a cancer survivor, has helped him cobble together a life free of drugs, away from the music business, even though she wants, more than anything else, to hear him play again. After Ronnie's estranged daughter Rae, a single mother and an aspiring singer of dubious talent, reenters his life, Ronnie attempts a comeback that will have readers rooting for him, even as his life with Betty hangs in the balance. Unfolding against the shadow of…
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2 editions- Other · English · 1999Penguin Publishing Group · 9780140275704
- Other · English · 1998Viking · 244 pages · 9780670876952
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