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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1568953755
ISBN-13: 9781568953755
Nov 1996
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audioworks
395 pages
Large Print
Wheeler Large Print Book Series
Language: English |
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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Synopsis
Thirty years after the murder of a civil rights leader, a Louisiana man, Aaron Crown, is convicted of the crime. Crown asserts his innocence and asks Dave Robicheaux, sheriff's deputy of New Iberia, to find the real killer. Robicheaux's involvement throws him in the midst of the media circus gathered to cash in on the long overdue decision. In addition to the attention of the big city film crews, the case draws the attention of Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Buford LaRose, who claims that the book he wrote helped convict Crown; it becomes clearer that LaRose and his shady backers want to ride the press coverage straight to the governor's mansion.
| Details | | Series: | Wheeler Large Print Book Series |
| Size | | Length: | 395 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 26.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Aaron Crown should not have come back into our lives. After all, he had never really been one of us, anyway, had he?"
Industry Reviews
"'Cadillac Jukebox' is studded with sentences so striking that you want to linger over them."
Wall Street Journal - Tom Nolan (07/19/1996)
"A master class on the page, with Burke effortlessly transcending the genre in which he is lodged....Involvement and excitement guaranteed, including that of seeing a major writer confidently at work. One of Burke's very best."
Literary Review - Philip Oakes (07/19/1996)
"For all the dirt it rolls around in, Mr. Burke's muscular prose is full of grace."
New York Times Book Review - Marilyn Stasio (08/18/1996)
"'Cadillac Jukebox' is terrific reading. Few writers in America can evoke a region as well as Burke. His southern Louisiana is haunted by its own tainted history of prejudice, violence and corruption. Again and again, its people learn they cannot escape their history, even if they are named Buford LaRose. Burke also has a discerning eye about social class and its tangle of conflicts, envy and hypocrisies."
Philadelphia Inquirer - Tim Warren (07/21/1996)
"Only Walter Mosley rivals Burke's ability to burrow so deeply into his detective's world that he creates a compelling sense of personal mythology."
Hexham
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