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The Lost Get-Back Boogie

2021-06-15 Fiction
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Release : 2021-06-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 42X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Lost Get-Back Boogie by : James Lee Burke

Download or read book The Lost Get-Back Boogie written by James Lee Burke. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first novel by "New York Times" bestselling author Burke--a long-out-of-print Pulitzer Prize winner---tells the story of a Korean war veteran and ex-con who tries to put the past behind him, even as he becomes embroiled in a heated political fight. Now available in this Premium Edition.

Lost Get-Back Boogie

1996-09-01 Fiction
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Release : 1996-09-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 800/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Lost Get-Back Boogie by : James Lee Burke

Download or read book Lost Get-Back Boogie written by James Lee Burke. This book was released on 1996-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Frank Riordan wages a one man campaign to shut down the local pulp mill that is polluting the air and devastating the environment, tensions are growing and so is the level of power he's up against. It is becoming more than he can handle and the man who can help already has troubles of his own.

Half of Paradise

2011-08-23 Fiction
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Release : 2011-08-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 230/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Half of Paradise by : James Lee Burke

Download or read book Half of Paradise written by James Lee Burke. This book was released on 2011-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the debut novel of James Lee Burke, before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux , as he weaves together the struggles of three very different men. Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism because he has to, and moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life-but the only break he gets lands him in penal servitude. J.P. Winfield, a hick with a gift for twelve-string guitar, finds his break into show-biz leads to the flipside of the American dream. Avery Broussard, descendant of an aristocratic French family, runs whiskey when what remains of his land is repossessed... The interlocking stories of these three men are an elegy to the realities of life in 1950s Louisiana, their destinies fixed by the circumstances of their birth and time. Yet each carries the hope of redemption...

The Mystery of Mysteries

2000 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2000
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 144/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Mystery of Mysteries by : Samuel Coale

Download or read book The Mystery of Mysteries written by Samuel Coale. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four American mystery writers have contributed new dimensions to the mystery form. Tony Hillerman's Navajos and their customs, Amanda Cross's (Carolyn Heilbrun's) academics and their feminist credentials (or lack thereof), James Lee Burke's Southern Louisiana Cajuns and his own fiercely moral take on Southern gothic fiction, and Walter Mosley's urban blacks and their culture have challenged the conventional mystery's focus. Using feminist and black critical theory, mythic and historical patterns, and literary genre theory, Samuel Coale examines these writers' works and investigates the compromises that each is forced to make when working within a recognizably popular literary form.

Robicheaux

2018-01-02 Fiction
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Release : 2018-01-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 854/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Robicheaux by : James Lee Burke

Download or read book Robicheaux written by James Lee Burke. This book was released on 2018-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Lee Burke’s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this New York Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an “enthralling yet grim novel that…will captivate, start to finish” (Publishers Weekly). Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux’s only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It’s in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he’d like to give to Levon Broussard, a popular local author whose books have been adapted into major Hollywood films. Then there’s Jimmy Nightengale, the young poster boy of New Orleans wealth and glamour. Jimmy’s fond of Levon’s work, and even fonder of his beautiful, enigmatic wife, Rowena. Tony thinks Jimmy can be a US Senator someday, and has the resources and clout to make it happen. There’s something off about the relationship among these three men, and after a vicious assault, it’s up to Robicheaux to uncover the truth “in the barn-burner of a climax” (Booklist, starred review). Complicating matters is the sudden death of the New Iberian local responsible for Molly’s death; namely that Robicheaux’s colleague thinks Robicheaux had something to do with it. As Robicheaux works to clear his name and make sense of the murder, a harrowing study of America emerges: this nation’s abiding conflict between a sense of past grandeur and a legacy of shame, its easy seduction by demagogues and wealth, and its predilection for violence and revenge. “It has been almost five years since James Lee Burke’s last Dave Robicheaux novel, and it was absolutely worth the wait” (Associated Press).

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