An edition of Trumpet (1998)

Trumpet

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An edition of Trumpet (1998)

Trumpet

1st American ed.
  • 3.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 50 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

After dying, a jazz musician in Scotland is discovered to be a woman. The novel describes the way Joss Moody, a black trumpet player, manages to maintain her charade as husband and father.

Publish Date
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
278

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1998, Pantheon Books
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Edition Notes

Lambda Literary Award, 1999

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6061.A932 T78 1998, PR6061.A932T78 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
278 p. ;
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24754933M
Internet Archive
trumpetkayj00kayj
ISBN 10
0375405097
ISBN 13
9780375405099
LCCN
98030517
OCLC/WorldCat
39556510

Work Description

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 herself in their home in a small Scottish village, sinking into the aching solace of memory.

Their two brilliantly realized voices -- one revisiting the past for comfort, the other for answers -- are interwoven with the equally evocative voices of Joss's drummer, of the doctor who discovered Joss's secret, of the funeral director who hid it for the last time, of the registrar of death certificates, and of the journalist. Together they reveal the startling and poignant story of Joss and Millie: how a complex, dazzling lie became the foundation for a family, a life, and a rare, unshakable love.

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