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Trumpet
Trumpet
paperback
Published:
27 August, 1999
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Description
Prizes
Winner of Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 1999 and Guardian Fiction Prize 1998. Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000 and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780330331463 |
| ISBN10 | 0330331469 |
| Number Of Pages | 200 |
| Item Weight | 195 g |
| Product Dimensions | 19 x 200 x 130 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Picador |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | New |
Media Reviews
WINNER OF THE 1998 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE It has a humanity and sympathy which engaged me from start to finish. And its energy and directness made it a treat to read. . . . [Trumpet makes] us see that people apparently very unlike ourselves are in fact very much like ourselves. . . . Love is not usually such a triumphant idea in modern writing, but I think Jackie Kay makes it believably and vividly so. -- Ian Jack, Granta Kay spins a love story, a fairy tale, and a psychological thriller out of one deep secret. She has a great gift for delving inside sundry souls, making poetry of their quirks. At its best, her prose ripples like jazz and brims with exquisite insights. -- Andrea Ashworth, author of Once in a House on Fire Jackie Kay makes the unbelievable gloriously real. For a first novel this is remarkably assured, full of melody and tension. Each character is given a singing part, bouncing notes and harmonies off each other as Joss's story is teasingly, movingly revealed. ...Trumpet is a love story and a lament, beautifully told. -- Eithne Farry, Time Out A hypnotic story...about the walls between what is known and what is secret--. Spare, haunting, dreamlike. --- Time Splendid...[Kay's] imaginative leaps in story and language will remind some readers of a masterful jazz solo. --- The San Francisco Chronicle