Present Of Books Trumpet
| Title | : | Trumpet |
| Author | : | Jackie Kay |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 278 pages |
| Published | : | July 11th 2000 by Vintage (first published August 21st 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer |
Jackie Kay
Paperback | Pages: 278 pages Rating: 4.05 | 4243 Users | 332 Reviews
Interpretation Supposing Books Trumpet
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion.The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. Besieged by the press, his widow Millie flees to a remote Scottish village, where she seeks solace in memories of their marriage. The reminiscences of those who knew Joss Moody render a moving portrait of a shared life founded on an intricate lie, one that preserved a rare, unconditional love.
Describe Books In Pursuance Of Trumpet
| Original Title: | Trumpet |
| ISBN: | 0375704639 (ISBN13: 9780375704635) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian Fiction Award (1998), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (1999), Authors' Club Best First Novel Award (1998), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000) |
Rating Of Books Trumpet
Ratings: 4.05 From 4243 Users | 332 ReviewsCriticism Of Books Trumpet
"When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive." What makes up identity? Is it your family?You accent?Where you're born?Where you're raised?Is it what you do?Is it how you do it?Is it the clothes you wear?Is it your age?Is your gender? Is it who you fall in love with?Is it who you respect? Trumpet is a beautiful investigation into the question of how people derive a sense of identity under circumstancesAbsolutely heartbreaking. Jackie Kay is just as good as I was led to believe and as a first novel (albeit from an established poet) this is phenomenal. I kept my sunglasses on long after the sun had gone down in an attempt to hide my tears from the other hotel guests around the pool.There's a hell of a lot in here and I'm sure it will stand up to several repeat readings. For me, first time through, this felt like a study of grief and of family and of racial issues, and barely about gender at
Jackie Kay is the current Scots Makar, Scotlands national poet. She dedicated this book to Carol Ann Duffy, her ex partner and currently Britains Poet Laureate. With credentials such as these, I had high expectations. Trumpet is a book of its time. It was written in the 1990s.The nineties love the private life. The private life that turns suddenly and horrifically public. The sly life that hides pure filth and sin. The life of respectability that shakes with hypocrisy. ... The upper-class
A fascinating exploration of the background to a secret revealed after the death of a famous trumpet player, Joss Moody. It is written from different points of view: in particular his wife, Millie, who is grieving, hiding and gradually working her way through her pain; his son Colman, who is distraught and hurting badly; and the odious reporter Sophie, who is just facile and mean. There are also snapshots from other people, on how Joss impacted on their lives. My only disappointment was that we
This book was a sensitive, complex memoir style fiction about the life and loves of a trans-man. When Joss moody the famous trumpet player dies, his family and friends need to come to terms with stuff they never knew about his past. Theoretically this book owes a lot to Judith Butler showing very clearly that gender is a performance, and also the odd way that what you see depends partly on your vantage point, players create gender together as a social effect not purely as an individual choice
I read this one pretty fast--it's a quick read in general, but you just don't want to stop. The writing style perfectly winds all these characters and their reactions together in a way that is so sympathetic and believable that it is hard to understand how this is fiction.The most important characters of this novel is, sadly, fictional--Joss Moody is a mixed-race Scottish jazz trumpet player who chose to live his life identifying as male, despite that fact that he was born female and lived much
After his death, it's revealed to the world that the famous male trumpet player Joss Moody turns out to have been assigned female at birth. Mostly a novel about the way his son grapples with this truth, the story is told through everyone's voice except for the deceased (save a few slightly-redeeming pages). The son's journey toward understanding his father is painful to read, but also somewhat powerful. Overall the book fell short of moving me, even felt frustrating at times, but was an
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