Patrick Neate
Author of Twelve Bar Blues
About the Author
Works by Patrick Neate
The Tesseract — Screenwriter — 4 copies
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- Canonical name
- Neate, Patrick
- Birthdate
- 1970
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- University of Cambridge
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A noir story about a Muslim PI in London. Interesting fresh mix. I enjoyed it quite a lot, though between the heavy British slang and the cricket metaphors there was a lot I couldn't follow.
The Guardian review sums it up well http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/16/featuresreviews.guardianreview23
I assume that at some point all the disparate threads will be pulled together, but there are too many of them, and none of them has caught my interest enough to keep reading. Stopped after 90 pages.
2016.05.23
2016.05.23
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I bought it in 2002 at Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, and then it sat in the TBR pile until yesterday.
The book starts in Africa in the mid 1700’s
Jumps to New Orleans in the beginning of the 20th century, then London, New York, Chicago and New Orleans 1998. Then Africa 1998, then back and forth between these times.
It is part historical fiction but the writing is phenomenal!
I don’t want to explain much of the storyline but it is the birth of jazz, the plight of blacks first as slaves, then just trying to get by in New Orleans past and present, and oddly but refreshing the portions that take place in modern day Africa are unusually funny.
This is a great book.… (more)