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Trumpet : a novel / Jackie Kay.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Kay Trumpet
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kay, Jackie, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scotland--Fiction.
- Scotland.
- Trumpet players--Scotland--Fiction.
- Trumpet players.
- Jazz--Scotland--Fiction.
- Jazz.
- Black people--Scotland--Fiction.
- Black people.
- Families--Scotland--Fiction.
- Families.
- Cross-dressers--Scotland--Fiction.
- Cross-dressers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Crossdressers
- LGBTQ+ fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is 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.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Awards - Transgender/Bisexual, Winner, 2000
- Lambda Literary Award, 1999
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 32
- ISBN:
- 9780375704635
- 0375704639
- OCLC:
- 44845745
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