by Patrick Neate · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140286564
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«Twelve Bar Blues» is the literary fiction novel by Patrick Neate, published by Penguin UK in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Three continents and two centuries intersect in a story of destiny, family, friendship and jazz. Lick Holden, a young cornetist who dazzles in New Orleans at the start of the last century, searches for his lost half-sister. At the end of that century, an English woman and a young drifter try to recover a past linked to the Louisiana swamps.
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award in 2001.
Will appeal to readers of literary and historical fiction, especially those seeking novels about jazz spanning multiple eras and continents.
