
Trumpet
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'Rich, taut and compelling' - Melvyn Bragg, The Guardian
'An accomplished display of vocal versatility' - The Literary Review
The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted son, Colman, whose bewildered fury brings the press to the doorstep and sends his grieving mother to the sanctuary of a remote Scottish village.
Trumpet by Jackie Kay is a starkly beautiful modern classic about the lengths to which people will go for love. It is a moving story of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, of loving deception and lasting devotion, and of the intimate workings of the human heart.
'Kay carefully registers the technical difficulties of transgendered life . . . She leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love' - The New York Times
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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Recounted in clear, spare, utterly unsentimental prose . . . the voices in this tender, compassionate work were still singing in my head a couple of weeks after I'd finished it * Observer * The book's style works like a jazz riff, a literary improvisation of the central melody of Joss's death * The Independent on Sunday * In an accomplished display of vocal versatility, Kay shifts effortlessly between the voices of Millie, Colman and Sophie Stones, an avaricious journalist who offers to help Colman avenge himself by ghostwriting a bare-all biography . . . the beauty of this book is the way its love, the character and story around which all the others orbit, is kept so intriguingly in the shadows, so fantastically out of view * Literary Review * Kay's powerful rendition of everyday speech combines perfectly with the themes and construction of her story * The Independent on Sunday * From the angry and disbelieving voice of the son Colman, whose hurt and alienation can only find expression through the cliches of tabloid expose, to Millie's personal elegy for her husband, Jackie Kay's ear for the poetry as well as for the rudeness of everyday speech is as powerful as ever * The Times Literary Supplement * Kay carefully registers the technical difficulties of transgendered life (breast binding, marriage certificates, death certificates) without sensationalizing them, and beautifully evokes both Millie's and Colman's grief. She leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love, wondering how it felt to be Joss Moody * The New York Times Book Review * Kay is a writer to respect . . . The qualities of sympathy and tenderness in this novel make it special * The Guardian * A rich, taut and compelling novel by a fine writer. A Picador classic -- Melvyn Bragg * The Guardian * A novel whose humanism, humor and vision demolish anyone's urge to think they've got the right to decide about, categorize or dismiss other human beings -- Ali Smith * The New York Times *More details
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