Another kind of Eden / James Lee Burke.
Series: Holland family. 11 | Burke, James Lee. Holland family saga ; 4.Publication details: London : Orion Books, 2021.Description: 243 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781398704701 (paperback)
- 1900-1999
- Agricultural laborers -- Fiction
- College students -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Criminals -- Fiction
- Nineteen sixties -- Fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Authors
- Criminals
- Cults
- Domestic fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- Murder
- Nineteen sixties
- Women artists
- Authors -- Fiction
- Women artists -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- United States -- Fiction
- Cults -- United States -- Fiction
- United States
- West United States
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | BUR | Holland Bk.11 | Available | 063602 |
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 power-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.