Review Tin Roof Blowdown

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Review tin roof blowdown.

Twice an edgar award winner once a pulitzer prize nominee burke is justifiably admired for his rich prose and for the character of robicheaux a complex compassionate man always striving to understand human motivation. In the tin roof blowdown new iberia police detective dave robicheaux finds himself in the heart of the hurricane katrina disaster when his department is temporarily assigned to rescue and response. Burke s new orleans was an accident waiting to happen. More than a literary novel even.

In tin roof blowdown the violence begins in nature in the form of hurricane katrina but is soon followed by the man made kind in the form of scavangers vigilantes gangsters sociopaths and assorted scumbags. In my opinion the tin roof blowdown is more than a crime novel. It certainly joins spike lee s documentary about new orleans as one of the most moving but clear. July 17 2007 a looting and shooting at the height of hurricane katrina s destruction sucks dave robicheaux pegasus descending 2006 etc into new orleans s purgatorial ordeal.

The tin roof blowdown by james lee burke release date. The characters are thinly drawn but they do not act as archetypes. As a potboiler crime novel the tin roof blowdown is so so. Before plunging into his typically serpentine plot burke takes time to etch an indelible portrait of the physical and spiritual.

Although the tin roof blowdown describes. It is a work of profound historical value and importance that should no must be read by anyone. There is plenty of action and rich dialogue. Filled with complex characters and depictions of people at both their best and worst the tin roof blowdown is not only an action packed crime thriller but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics are already calling burke s best work.