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James Lee Burke: “Il Sud è l’Eden in rovina, la Louisiana un dono di Dio”

Lo scrittore Usa: “Uno dei miei libri più apprezzati fu rifiutato centoundici volte”

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ゆらのふ Aug 17, 2025

> 人生で二度だけ、このような夜明けを見たことがあった。一度はベトナムで、夜道でバウンシング・ベティが地中から飛び出し、その燃えるような触手をわたしの太ももに絡めたあとのこと、そしてその何年も前に、ルイジアナ州フランクリンで父とわたしが、納屋の壁に十六ペニー釘で手首と足首を十字架のように打ちつけられた労働運動家の死体を発見したときのことだ。

#JamesLeeBurke 『磔の地』

Sanval Oct 25, 2024

#vendredilecture #complicités de #Alafairburke . J’essaie car j’ai beaucoup aimé les livres du père #JamesLeeBurke.

Stefano Solventi 👨‍🎤Jun 15, 2023

"Arriva un giorno in cui vedi qualcosa di cui non parli mai più, e che vive con te per il resto dei tuoi giorni"

#Robicheaux è un thriller, un mistery, un noir, uno sguardo denso e paludoso sulla nostra incontenibile deriva.

#letture #noir #thriller #jamesleeburke

https://pensierosecondario.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/nel-pantano-della-coscienza-robicheaux-di-james-lee-burke/

Nel pantano della coscienza: Robicheaux di James Lee Burke

Ad oggi i romanzi che compongono il ciclo di Dave Robicheaux sono ventitré. Niente fa pensare che il loro autore James Lee Burke, classe 1936 da Houston ma cresciuto in Louisiana, abbia intenzione …

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Maude Nificent Feb 7, 2023

Re-#Watching #Treme (post Katrina New Orleans)
Review part 5

Found myself then re-#Reading #TheTinRoofBlowdown 2007
author #JamesLeeBurke was born in 1936 so his style and characters are a wee bit dated but I found his story about Katrina riveting all over again.

Tin Roof supplements Treme as a source of insights into all the rorting grifting and political disregard behind the US Federal govt inaction then non-response to Katrina.

Treme has a lot to say about why no one wanted those displaced by Katrina to come back (for a start, those remaining would be more likely to vote republican); and shows how billions were wasted on housing schemes. The Tin Roof Blowdown has the sort of commentary that makes some detective novels so satisfying; Place is a major character, and “the character of that character” is everything.