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Sto caricando le informazioni... Another Kind of Eden (edizione 2021)di James Lee Burke (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This review was originally written for NetGalley at this link https://www.netgalley.com/book/229738/review/670189 James Lee Burke has been, for over half a century, a brilliant star on the American literary scene and Another Kind of Eden is his forty-first novel. Set in the American west of the early 1960s, it straddles multiple genres and features Aaron Holland Broussard, a war veteran and aspiring writer, as its lead. Aaron is exploring the country by riding freight trains and stops at Trinidad, Colorado, where he finds a job as a farmhand. Suffering from non-chemically induced blackouts and frequent nightmares from the war, he tries to lose himself in his new life on the farm. Suddenly, due to some freak events, his idyllic existence is threatened as he finds himself on the wrong side of a local man of terrifying repute and his seemingly psychopathic son. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a beautiful, fiery girl who, somehow, is mixed up with a shady art professor and a busload of banged up hippies. Amidst all this, a local policeman pesters Aaron to help him catch the killer of a number of girls and women in the area. Things start to deteriorate quickly and Aaron finds that nothing is as it seems anymore. In order to save himself and his love, Aaron has to confront several demons—both inside his head and outside of it. This was my first experience of Burke’s work and I was expecting it to be a mystery / suspense thriller out and out. Though it feels like one initially, it ends up being something entirely different thanks to the heavy dose of magical realism that permeates it in the latter half. Burke’s characters are etched with a lot of detail and all of them are messed up one way or another. There are multiple layers to these characters, which get peeled off as the narrative progresses, showcasing the author’s supreme skill. Aaron, as the narrator, is quite engaging, but is exasperating at times due to his unreliability. Burke’s description of the people and the scenery is starkly lifelike and his dialogues are snappy. As much as enjoyed Burke’s engrossing storytelling, I could not help feeling cheated by the utterly inconclusive epilogue—following the nerve-racking climax—that leaves many questions unanswered. Maybe I was expecting something different from what Burke normally delivers, but I was still disappointed by the ending and would rate it 3.5 out of 5. Another Kind of Eden is sure to be loved by Burke’s fans but, in my opinion, it may not be the ideal place to start reading him. My sincere thanks to James Lee Burke and Orion Publishing Group for the e-ARC through NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased review. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne's involvement with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult. When a sinister businessman and his son who wield their influence through vicious cruelty set their sights on Aaron, drawing him into an investigation of grotesque murders, it is clear that this idyllic landscape harbors tremendous powerâ??and evil. Followed by a mysterious shrouded figure who might not be human, Aaron will have to face down all these foes to save the life of the woman he loves and his own. The latest installment in James Lee Burke's masterful Holland family saga, Another Kind of Eden is both riveting and one of Burke's most ambitious works to date. It dismantles the myths of both the twentieth-century American West and the peace-and-love decade, excavating the beauty and idealism of the era to show the menace and chaos that lay simmering just beneath the surfa Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Somehow he gets on the wrong side of the son of a powerful man whom he believes is possessed by evil. He also meets and falls in love with a young woman who is allowing an opportunistic professor and his acolytes, a group of young drug addicts and hippies to live on her land. And the local police officer is trying to convince Broussard to help him in his search for the killer of several young women in the area. Soon Broussard find himself caught up in a tangled web of deceit and danger with seeming no way out for either him or the woman he loves.
James Lee Burke, to me, is one of the greatest living American authors. His books.although in simple terms are thrillers, but there has always been a spiritual side to them. Another Kind of Eden is also infused with magical realism, a tale of good versus evil in which Burke turns over the idyllic myths of the ‘60s exposing the ugly underbelly and he does it with his usual beautiful, almost lyrical prose.
I’d like to thank Edelweiss+ and the publishers for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review. ( )