Half of Paradise

by JamesLeeBurke (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $11.55

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $5.12

  HALF OF PARADISE is a series of novels, set in the Louisiana heartland, that gave birth to Robicheaux. Published in 1965 when Burke was in his twenties this is a mesmerising narrative of three young men from disparate backgrounds hwo find their destinies tragically interwined.