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Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-100385488440
ISBN-139780385488440
eBay Product ID (ePID)1629190
Product Key Features
Book TitlePurple Cane Road
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense
Publication Year2000
GenreFiction
AuthorJames Lee Burke
Book SeriesDave Robicheaux Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-054080
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"America's best novelist." --The Denver Post "A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years." --Daily News(New York) "Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee Burke." --The New York Times "No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his best." -- Michael Connelly, author ofVoid Moon Don't miss James Lee Burke's sensational bestsellers: Heartwood "A heartfelt, passionate book ... powerfully bittersweet." --The Seattle Times Sunset Limited "Splendidly atmospheric ... with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it." --People Available from Dell From the Paperback edition., "America's best novelist." -- The Denver Post "A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years." -- Daily News (New York) "Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee Burke." -- The New York Times "No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his best." -- Michael Connelly, author of Void Moon Don't miss James Lee Burke's sensational bestsellers: Heartwood "A heartfelt, passionate book ... powerfully bittersweet." -- The Seattle Times Sunset Limited "Splendidly atmospheric ... with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it." -- People Available from Dell, "America's best novelist." --The Denver Post "A thoroughly absorbing mystery packed with the colorful characters and moral dilemmas that have turned Dave Robicheaux into one of the more vivid literary creations of the last 20 years." --Daily News(New York) "Nobody writes about the bad old days down South like James Lee Burke." --The New York Times "No other living writer has been more influential on the contemporary crime novel than James Lee Burke.... This one is his best." -- Michael Connelly, author ofVoid Moon Don't miss James Lee Burke's sensational bestsellers: Heartwood "A heartfelt, passionate book ... powerfully bittersweet." --The Seattle Times Sunset Limited "Splendidly atmospheric ... with dialogue so sharp you can shave with it." --People Available from Dell
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisDave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end. While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. PURPLE CANE ROAD has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surpises from start to finish.
LC Classification NumberPS3552.U723P87 2000
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- 13 Jul, 2021
One of the best by Burke
Burke has written many novels, but this was one of his best. In the book, Robichaeux remembers his childhood in the bayou and his rough, Cajun father. The writing is amazing, the plotting is perfect, and the atmosphere of south Louisiana shines through.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 31 May, 2020
Great
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