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Rent Twelve Bar Blues
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pub Group West
Published: Feb 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $14.00
Pages: 416
Synopsis
A musician named Lick Holden, who learns to play the cornet in reform school, and his sister Sophie, who can pass for white, are the focus of this novel, which follows the two from the 1920s to a couple of generations later, when a descendent becomes an acclaimed musician when she returns to her African roots.
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