Books by Jackie Kay and Complete Book Reviews

David Hockney
David Hockney
Peter Adam, Author, Jackie Kay, Author Absolute Press $9.95 (143p) ISBN 978-1-899791-55-2
The British-born, longtime Los Angeles resident, gay painter Hockney suffers from overexposure in a plethora of books about his mixed achievements in painting, drawing, stage design and photography. However, a memoir by Adam, a BBC documentary...
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Jackie Kay, Author Absolute Press $12.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-899791-70-5
In one of the more interesting volumes in the ""Outlines"" series on gay and lesbian creators, Scottish-born poet and woman of color Kay profiles the great American blues singer, whose life inspired some of the poems in Kay's recent collection of...
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Trumpet
Trumpet
Jackie Kay, Author Pantheon Books $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-40509-9
A Scottish poet with a fresh and resonant voice makes her fiction debut with a novel about the life of a famous jazz musician, born female, who masquerades as a man. Like the real-life Billy Tipton, Scottish trumpet player Joss Moody has a wife,...
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