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Last Car to Elysian Fields
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Robicheaux: Book 13

Last Car to Elysian Fields (2003) (edit title/settings)

by James Lee Burke (Author) (edit contributors)

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For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in Last Car to Elysian Fields -- means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar,... read more

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The first week after Labor Day, after a summer of hot wind and drought that left the cane fields dust blown and spiderwebbed with cracks, rain showers once more danced across the wetlands, the temperature dropped twenty degrees, and the sky turned the hard flawless blue of an inverted ceramic bowl.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 13 of 19 in Robicheaux. (standard series)

Preceded by Jolie Blon's Bounce, and followed by Crusader's Cross.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. James Lee Burke (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 30, 2003
ISBN: 0743245423
Page Count: 352

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3552.U723 L37 2003
  • Dewey: 813.54

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  • Wikipedia Article on Dave Robicheaux: Once an officer for the New Orleans police department, Robicheaux constantly breaches the ethical code over the course of just about every case he works on - seemingly without consequence - and currently pursues cases in New Iberia, Louisiana as sheriff's deputy. He is a recovering alcoholic whose demons stem from his service in the Vietnam War and his impoverished difficult childhood in rural Louisiana; his mother abandoned the family (and was later murdered) and his father died in an oil rig explosion.

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