- Cornet players, Ex-prostitutes, British, Fiction
Lick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet player, sets out to conquer the steaming jazz scene of early twentieth-century New Orleans.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick Neate
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, New York, NY: Grove Press, Amfora
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780802140562
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“Lick Holden was christened Fortis James.”
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