Twelve Bar Blues (novel)
{{Short description|2001 novel by Patrick Neate}}
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{{infobox book |
| name = Twelve Bar Blues
| image = File:Twelve Bar Blues.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = Patrick Neate
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| genre = Historical novel
| publisher = Viking Press
| release_date = 2001
| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
| pages = 416
| isbn = 0-670-88791-9
| oclc = 49394577
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Twelve Bar Blues is a 2001 novel by Patrick Neate,{{cite book | last=Neate | first=P. | title=Twelve Bar Blues | publisher=Grove Press | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-8021-1727-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I1ELIyKWxLoC}}{{cite journal|last=Reinfandt|first=Christoph|title=White Man Tells the Blues: The Power of Music and Narrative in Patrick Neate's Twelve Bar Blues|journal=Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik|volume=54|issue=1|year=2006|doi=10.1515/zaa-2006-0106|pages=33–49}} and the winner of that year's Whitbread novel award.
The story is essentially about two people who share a common history - Fortis 'Lick' Holden, a cornet player in early 20th Century New Orleans, and Sylvia Di Napoli, a retired prostitute living in modern-day London, who is searching for her ancestry. Louis Armstrong is also featured in the novel.
==References==
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Category:Novels set in New Orleans
Category:Cultural depictions of Louis Armstrong
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