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TrumpetJackie Kay

Trumpet

1998278 pages
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At its center is Joss Moody, a celebrated jazz trumpeter who created music that convinced everyone who heard it that they knew the man who made it. But Joss's death has proved them all wrong: Joss Moody lived his life inside a stunning secret. His wife, Millie, had known about it. But their adopted son, Colman, now in his thirties, has just learned of it. With everything he understood about himself and his family thrown into question, Colman forms an uncomfortable alliance with a journalist intent on telling Joss's story her own way. Millie, grieving and besieged by the press, secludes…

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Editions

8 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2016
    Picador · 9781447289494
  • Paperback · English · 2011
    Picador USA · 200 pages · 9780330511827
  • Paperback · English · 1999
    Picador · 200 pages · 9780330331463
  • Other · English · 2024
    Pan Macmillan · 9781035038961
  • Other · English · 2000
    Vintage · 288 pages · 9780375704635
  • Other · English · 1999
    Picador · 9780330391597
Jazz musiciansFictionFiction, generalTransvestitesBlacksTrumpet playersFamiliesCross-dressers