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Dave Robicheaux #1
The Neon Rain
Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.
285 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
About the author
James Lee Burke
106 books4,283 followersJames Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series. He has twice received the Edgar Award for Best Novel, for
Black Cherry Blues
in 1990 and
Cimarron Rose
in 1998.
Burke was born in Houston, Texas, but grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of Missouri, receiving a BA and MA from the latter. He has worked at a wide variety of jobs over the years, including working in the oil industry, as a reporter, and as a social worker. He was Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, succeeding his good friend and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole, and preceding Ernest Gaines in the position. Shortly before his move to Montana, he taught for several years in the Creative Writing program at Wichita State University in the 1980s.
Burke and his wife, Pearl, split their time between Lolo, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana. Their daughter, Alafair Burke, is also a mystery novelist.
The book that has influenced his life the most is the 1929 family tragedy "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner.
Burke was born in Houston, Texas, but grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of Missouri, receiving a BA and MA from the latter. He has worked at a wide variety of jobs over the years, including working in the oil industry, as a reporter, and as a social worker. He was Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, succeeding his good friend and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole, and preceding Ernest Gaines in the position. Shortly before his move to Montana, he taught for several years in the Creative Writing program at Wichita State University in the 1980s.
Burke and his wife, Pearl, split their time between Lolo, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana. Their daughter, Alafair Burke, is also a mystery novelist.
The book that has influenced his life the most is the 1929 family tragedy "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner.
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November 25, 2012
Nogle gange tager man en chance når der er bogudsalg, denne kostede mig kun en flad ti'er, så spildet er ikke så stort.
1. del i en verdensberømt serie lokkede mig til at kaste mig over Neonregn, selvom teaseren om at Burke skriver "bemærkelsesværdigt clean, ukunstlet og flydende med et sprog fuld af den sarteste poisi" ikke lige råbte på min interesse.
Og de havde ret, bogen er ikke specielt spændende eller overraskende, men fyld af poisi-omspundet sprog, det er ikke lige mig, så jeg holdt ud i omkring en tredjedel inden jeg gav op og nu kaster mig over mere - for mig - interessant læsning.
1. del i en verdensberømt serie lokkede mig til at kaste mig over Neonregn, selvom teaseren om at Burke skriver "bemærkelsesværdigt clean, ukunstlet og flydende med et sprog fuld af den sarteste poisi" ikke lige råbte på min interesse.
Og de havde ret, bogen er ikke specielt spændende eller overraskende, men fyld af poisi-omspundet sprog, det er ikke lige mig, så jeg holdt ud i omkring en tredjedel inden jeg gav op og nu kaster mig over mere - for mig - interessant læsning.
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