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ISBN
9780385488440

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385488440
ISBN-13
9780385488440
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1629190

Product Key Features

Book Title
Purple Cane Road
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense
Genre
Fiction
Author
James Lee Burke
Book Series
Dave Robicheaux Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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LCCN
99-054080
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 Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
Dave 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 Number
PS3552.U723P87 2000

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  • by mamasbooks.903
    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-ownedSold by: thrift.books

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