The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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BURKE, James Lee. The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2007. Octavo. Full dark brown leather. Spine with three raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Elaborate gilt stamping to covers and spine. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 373 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Simon Schuster, 2007. James Lee Burke (b. 1936) was born in Houston and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, the landscape of flat water, live oak, sugarcane, and Spanish moss that saturates every page of the Dave Robicheaux series. He is widely regarded as one of the finest prose stylists working in crime fiction — a writer whose sentences carry the weight of Faulkner and the moral gravity of Flannery O'Connor, and who uses the conventions of the detective novel as a vehicle for sustained meditation on violence, memory, race, and the specific textures of Louisiana life. He has won Edgar Awards for Black Cherry Blues (1990) and Cimarron Rose (1998), and has received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The Tin Roof Blowdown is the sixteenth novel in the Robicheaux series. It opens in late August 2005, in the hours after Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Dave Robicheaux, sheriff's detective for Iberia Parish, i

• Binding: Hardcover

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