Trumpet

Jackie Kay

first published 1998 Pantheon, 1999 hardcover 288 pages

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 thr...

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Trumpet edition · 2024 · Pan Macmillan · 9781035038961
Trumpet paperback · 2016 · Picador · 9781447289494
Trumpet paperback · 2011 · Picador USA · 200 pages · 9780330511827
Trumpet edition · 2000 · Vintage · 288 pages · 9780375704635
Trumpet. paperback · 1999 · Picador · 256 pages
Trumpet paperback · 1999 · Picador · 200 pages · 9780330331463
Trumpet hardcover · 1999 · Pantheon · 288 pages · 9780375405099
Trumpet edition · 1998 · Picador · 278 pages

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