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Synopsis
Photojournalist Megan Flynn returns home to Louisiana and becomes embroiled in her family's attempts to reconcile their bloody history. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
| Size | | Length: | 387 pages | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux is back, as polite as ever, after sitting out Burke's Cimarron Rose. Accompanying Dave is his buddy Clete and a marvelous cast of characters--downtrodden Cool Breeze Broussard, tortured Lila Terrebonne, slimy Harpo Scruggs, and photojournalist Megan Flynn, whose father, a labor organizer, was crucified on a barn wall 40 years ago. . . . Once again, with strong and graceful prose, Burke presents a tale as dark and rich as a cup of chicory coffee. Highly recommended.
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Ott
Following his inclination to make a Federal case out of every grass-roots crime, Burke pulls in everyone from the F.B.I. to the Dixie Mafia to stir up the action. But even when the plot gets so muddy you can't see the fish, the characters leap right out of the water. Burke gives voice and heart to luckless souls like Cool Breeze ('He tried to stay out of trouble but wouldn't nobody let him') and sad, wasted Lila Terrebonne, . . . and greasy guts to villains like Swede Boxleiter, a 'sewer rat' with revolting criminal habits. Whatever the misery at hand, Burke finds meaning for it in the old crimes of race hatred and class tyranny that obsess his brooding hero--that the people in his books seem compelled to repeat.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Stasio
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