Half of Paradise

Half of Paradise

James Lee Burke
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Author:  James Lee Burke
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  288
Publisher:  Orion Publishing Co
Year:  1997
ISBN:  9780752826394

A mesmerising novel set in the Louisiana heartland from award-winning author James Lee Burke.

Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism because he has to, and moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life - but the only break he gets lands him in penal servitude. J.P. Winfield, a hick with a gift for twelve-string guitar, finds his break into showbiz leads to the flipside of the American dream. Avery Broussard, descendant of an aristocratic French family, runs whiskey after what remains of his land is repossessed...

The interlocking stories of these three men are an elegy to the realities of life in 1950s Louisiana, their destinies fixed by the circumstances of their birth and time. Yet each carries the hope of redemption.

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