Twelve Bar Blues

Neate, Patrick

ISBN 10: 014028656X / ISBN 13: 9780140286564

Published by Penguin, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twelve Bar Blues
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014028656X
• ISBN 13: 9780140286564
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 11 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Spanning three continents and two centuries, Twelve Bar Blues is an epic tale of fate, family, friendship and jazz. At its heart is Lick Holden, a young jazz musician, who sets New Orleans on fire with his cornet at the beginning of the last century. But Lick's passion is to find his lost step-sister and that's a journey that leads him to a place he can call 'home'. Meanwhile, at the other end of the century, we find Sylvia, an English prostitute, and Jim, a young drifter. They're in search of Sylvia's past, lost somewhere in the mists of the Louisiana bayou.

Patrick Neate has written a story that straddles time and space, love and friendship, roots and pilgrimage and everything between. Poignant and hilarious, it will hook you - like a favourite tune - till the end.

About the Author

Patrick Neate is the author of five novels: Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko, which won a Betty Trask Award, Twelve Bar Blues, which won the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The London Pigeon Wars, City of Tiny Lights and Jerusalem. His nonfiction includes Where You're At, which won the NBCC Award for Criticism in the USA. He is a Londoner.