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Title: Burning Angel by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0-7868-8904-7 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thoroughly satisfying
Comment: James Lee Burke is a master novelist whose prose is so good that I begin to notice how good it is, and that distracts me a little. But that's about the only quibble I have with it. Burke's dialogue is imaginatively vernacular and must be savored rather than skimmed, and his evocation of place is topnotch. All the characters are fully developed and human in a Faulknerian sort of way; i.e., their lives and actions are directed by their heritage and experiences in ways they cannot easily defy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Burke on less-than-top form is still pretty splendid
Comment: Not quite the best of the Robicheaux series - that would be either A Morning for Flamingos or A Stained White Radiance - but James Lee Burke's second-best books are still more powerful, more moving, and more vivid than most writers' first-best.
As always with the saga of Dave "Streak" Robicheaux and the lowlife elements he encounters, Burke excels at character delineation and at conveying the phosphorescent, putrid atmosphere of Huey Long territory. Fans of Cletus "Noble Mon" Purcel - with his truly poetic capacity for invective - will be glad to know that he's back, as is the still dirtier-mouthed Helen Soileau, who unexpectedly reveals a vulnerable side here.
Precious few living novelists can me buy their work purely on the strength of their name. Burke's one of the few.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hooked on Burke's intricate, sensitive, extraordinary books
Comment: I've now read nine of his books. I first read Purple Cane Road. It led me to read his stories in order. I'm so glad I did. The quality of Mr. Burke's story line, narrative, and insight flow through his books. I've read hundreds of mystery, crime, thriller books. Burke's about the best! Burning Angel was a delight. I was there with Dave and Bootsie, and Clete. Makes me fear he'll stop writing; makes me want more. I want to pass him on, recommend James Lee Burke to those who have yet to discover his stories as well as his insightful references to healing, help through the friends of Bill W.
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Title: A Stained White Radiance by James L. Burke ISBN: 0380720477 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0786889004 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cadillac Jukebox Mass Market by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0786889187 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0440224047 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0440223989 Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: 06 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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