Half of Paradise
Author(s): James Lee Burke
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 showbiz leads to the flipside of the American dream. Avery Broussard, descendant of an aristocratic French family, runs whiskey after 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.
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Reissued in new cover design behind his new novel LAST CAR TO ELYSIAN FIELDS All of James Lee Burke's backlist is being reissed under Phoenix with a great new cover look James Lee Burke won the CWA/Macallan Gold Dagger for fiction for SUNSET LIMITED and the Edgar Award for CIMARRON ROSE. His novels have sold over 350,000 copies in paperback to date and all his most recent novels have been bestsellers 'Potent, lyrical, inimitable' LITERARY REVIEW 'James Lee Burke has a sophisticated and brilliantly expressed vision of humanity' TLS 'Burke is the poet of the tortured South and never fails to connect at all levels' TIME OUT
James Lee Burke is the author of numerousprevious novels, including twelve featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux. He lives with his wife, Pearl, in Missoula, Montana and New Iberia, Louisiana.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Orion mass market paperback
- : 0.275
- : 01 July 1999
- : 180mm X 111mm X 22mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : James Lee Burke
- : Paperback
- : 813.54
- : 288
