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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- James Lee Burke
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 275
- Publisher
- Pocket, Vintage, Mysterious Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780712634915
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“THE EVENING SKY WAS streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.”
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