The Lost Get-Back Boogie

Name: The Lost Get-Back Boogie
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: James Lee Burke
ISBN: 9781440775239

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Will Patton

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/04/2009

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Called "America's best novelist" by the Denver Post, James Lee Burke is well known for his award-winning Dave Robicheaux series. In this enthralling departure, Burke weaves the tale of Iry Paret. Released from prison after two years for manslaughter, Iry heads to Montana for a fresh start on a ranch owned by a prison buddy's father. He also hopes to nail down a song he's been working on, unable to get quite right. But soon new troubles bring tragic consequences, and it will take a lot more than a soulful tune to ease the pain.

About James Lee Burke

American mystery author, James Lee Burke, was born in Houston, Texas, explaining why most of the lead characters in his novels are Texan. He has won two Edgar awards, which is a very rare experience, and is a bestselling author of two short story collections and over thirty novels. Burke is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. His Edgar Awards were for Black Cherry and Cimarron Rose. Two of his series were made into screen plays with each movie having a-list actors playing the Robicheaux character (Alec Baldwin - Heaven's Prisoners, and Tommy Lee Jones- In the Electric Mist).

A writer must usually hold down other employment while they attempt to gain a degree of following readers. Burke's various jobs included.......truck driver, newspaper reporter, social worker, land surveyor, unemployment system employee, Job Corps worker, teacher, and finally, novelist.

Burke lives in Montana with his wife, Pearl, two daughters, and four grandchildren. His favorite advice was given by Irving Stone, when Burke was nineteen.......... "Never write a story to pay your gas bill......if you do, be assured your utilities will be turned off".

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cathy on August 23, 2013

I'm just amazed at the ability of James Lee Burke to create characters who have such depth as Ivy Paret the ex-con who served his time in Angola (Louisiana) and is trying to begin a new life far away from his home town. All of Burke's guys, his characters, think about right and wrong; about trying t......more

Goodreads review by Donna on May 06, 2013

Whoa. Okay. I can't BELIEVE what it says in the preface, that this novel was REJECTED 111 times...and then nominated for the Pulitzer. It's raw, it's vivid, and in places so painful that I had to read it in small jags at a time to break it up. That's okay; it made this excellent novel last longer. He......more

Goodreads review by Blair on May 07, 2016

Just a dynamo of a book. The reader can get utterly lost in the descriptive passages about the landscapes. The author's love for his characters and scenery is immense and heartfelt. The prose flows like Southern Comfort into a chilled glass with ice. The story revolves around a man named Iry, an ex-......more

Goodreads review by Aditya on January 26, 2019

Recently paroled Ivy Paret is looking for a fresh start at his ex con friend Buddy Riordan's place. The trouble is Buddy's righteous, stoic father is waging a one man war against the town's main employment generating organization. He wants the courts to close down the mill on account of the air poll......more

Goodreads review by J.R. on July 04, 2012

James Lee Burke is one of those rare writers who can describe a character or place so well you almost expect to bump into them or see the scenery out your window. This novel was his introduction (or reintroduction in some cases) to a reading public after his earlier work had been out of print for 13......more