The Lost Get-Back Boogie
Iry Paret's done his time -- two years for manslaughter in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. In prison, Iry tinkered with a song --...
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Iry Paret's done his time -- two years for manslaughter in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. In prison, Iry tinkered with a song -- "The Lost Get-Back Boogie" -- that never came out quite right. Now, the Riordan family's problems hand him a new kind of trouble, with some tragic consequences. And Iry must get the tune right at last, or pay a fateful price.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9781416517061 (1416517065)
Publish date: March 1st 2006
Publisher: Pocket Star
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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 ...
The Lost Get Back Boogie is a slap of cold water in the face. Burke writes with the cultural empathy of Tony Hillerman, the passion for nature and the environment of a Edward Abby, and the socio-psychological suspense of a James Lehane. This is literary suspense at its finest. While Burke is often c...
This book did not get particularly good reviews when it was first published (it's pre-Robichaeux and this edition is a reprint), but I liked it very much. As the book opens, Iry Paret has just been paroled from prison, having been convicted of manslaughter. Because the man was trying to cut him open...
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