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Twelve Bar Blues
	First edition
Author	Patrick Neate
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	2001
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	416
ISBN	0-670-88791-9
OCLC	49394577

Twelve Bar Blues is a 2001 novel by Patrick Neate,^[1]^[2] 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.

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^ Neate, P. (2001). Twelve Bar Blues. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-1727-4.
^ Reinfandt, Christoph (2006). "White Man Tells the Blues: The Power of Music and Narrative in Patrick Neate's Twelve Bar Blues". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 54 (1): 33–49. doi:10.1515/zaa-2006-0106.

[1] Neate, P. (2001). Twelve Bar Blues. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-1727-4.

[2] Reinfandt, Christoph (2006). "White Man Tells the Blues: The Power of Music and Narrative in Patrick Neate's Twelve Bar Blues". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 54 (1): 33–49. doi:10.1515/zaa-2006-0106.

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