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Another Kind of Eden Kindle Edition

by James Lee Burke (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 3,674 ratings
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New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s.

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.

The latest installment in James Lee Burke’s masterful Holland family saga, Another Kind of Eden is both riveting and one of Burke’s most ambitious works to date. It dismantles the myths of both the twentieth-century American West and the peace-and-love decade, excavating the beauty and idealism of the era to show the menace and chaos that lay simmering just beneath the surface.
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“In a world of overstuffed, overwritten ‘blockbuster’ books, it’s a pleasure to pick up 243 perfect pages with not a word or comma out of place. James Lee Burke doesn’t need filler to flesh out his stories… Another masterwork from one of the finest novelists in North America.” —Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

“In many of Burke’s books, he breaches the curtain between what we think of as the real world and the past, the supernatural, the alternative, whatever lies on the other side. In Another Kind of Eden he sweeps that curtain back like a theater impresario, inviting the reader into a potent vision of the battle between good and evil that animates all his fiction.” —Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times

“Incorporating elements of horror into otherwise realistic thrillers is a thing these days, but few manage it with Burke's special eloquence, at once melancholic and macabre.”—Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review)

“Sharp prose and distinctive characters…Suspense fans will be well satisfied.” —Publisher’s Weekly

About the Author

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08LDWTGVY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster (August 17, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 17, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4851 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 252 pages
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James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He’s authored thirty-seven novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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Maggie Deaton
5.0 out of 5 stars Another magnificent novel by the master!
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2022
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My late husband and I both have read Mr. Burke's books for more years than I care to count... His prose has always been magnificent and while many criticize his latest bent to the supernatural, I see it as a leaning to the spiritual combining with his gift of storytelling and character development.... In other words, I am a lover of this new direction as well. Have already preordered the next in this series.... The main character in this series is a deeply troubled man coping with the evil in this world as best he can while struggling to maintain his own self worth and hurt no one if he can avoid it. The sad fact is it cannot always be avoided... I have missed this author as I have not read his books for several years, since losing my husband to Agent Orange, another gift from war. Reading this book was like coming home to an old and dear friend... Thank you for that, Mr. Burke.
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4.0 out of 5 stars James Lee Burke Lite.
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2021
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All of the superior qualities evident in JLB’s previous books are present in Another Kind of Eden.

Like A Private Cathedral, supernatural elements are introduced in Another Kind of Eden. It leans towards science fiction. For me, the jury is still out on placing supernatural elements in traditional fiction.

Personally, I feel that as JLB gets closer and closer to the end of the line, he has become somewhat overly- preoccupied with mortality , and this becomes evident in his newfound affinity for the supernatural and his personal struggle to make sense of the concept of an afterlife. To be sure, mortality is a recurring theme in Burke’s work. These last two books seem the logical extension of Burke’s vision of mortality - a glimpse into consciousness and the power of Mother Nature: surely we will exist in some [ supernatural ] form after we die.

OK. The new book. As I mentioned in my headline, this is JLB Lite. The best I can put it is that I felt as if I were reading a very early book written by JLB. It just wasn’t as deep or developed as I had hoped.

It is still a very good story and worth your time.
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Ohioszo
5.0 out of 5 stars Catholic Author
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2023
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I cannot explain, but, he thanked those who read his books. I did. Almost a farewell novel, a main character analogous to himself. Surrounded by beauty, but finding the sinful side. Even if it was so awful, it was a story that was true to the harm that the drug culture brings, or the deep evil; he makes sure he brings in the war. Eden is a place that was divided in two. The character of the women who says that the main character does not get it. What does she get? Someone tell me. Unless the comment was an act. I guess how important her story was. More important than
N being loved by him.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Robuster
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2022
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I love Mr. Burke’s stories. This one ended badly in my opinion. Which I truly despise in a book I’ve spent time in.
I never quite understood where the story wanted to take me. I know where it left me.
That it was a paranormal story for the most part I did enjoy .
Mr. Burke does paranormal very well. Stephen King could learn from his example. …

The Jo Ann character wasn’t done very well , not to mention she wasn’t very likable. Mr. Burke’s has done the Vickers family part of this plot line in way to many of his past novels. It’s getting tiresome .
I liked Cotton , Spud and the work gang . There just wasn’t enough of them in this story. I would really have enjoyed more of the back story on the husband and wife , the Lowerys. The wife could be an excellent villain or a redeeming hero in her own storyline.
I am not sure the protagonist has any real control of his life. He has to many flaws to be believable. I could not embrace him as I have with many of Mr. Burke’s past protagonists.

A lot of plot lines were left unanswered for me.
Who was killing the women the Sheriff was concerned over ?
Who killed the Sheriffs granddaughter?
Was she killed or was it an accident?
Where did Jo Ann disappear to and who with? Was it her father ? Did she run off by herself ?
The bus full of hippies were never accounted for at the end of the story.
Not to mention the ending . What the hell was that all about?

The book was free , I enjoyed reading it. It was well wrote for what it was. Yes I would recommend it if this genre is what one likes.
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Sharon
5.0 out of 5 stars A tale of human conflict and resolution by the country’s most descriptive and insightful author.
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2021
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The main character is centered n the context of history, his, his family’s and the country’s-and the story in the current events of the Sixties. As the young educated restless wanderer, whose mind may or may not play tricks on him, he attempts to lead an honorable responsible transient life. But circumstances push him and his coworkers on a CO farm into local affairs and conflict with the most powerful family in the area while at the same time introducing him to a teen aged waitress with whom he seems to have developed a bond, and her unsettling circumstances. But few things are exactly as they seem and the drug scene, the hippie lifestyle, the the political and economic conflicts all merge and dissolve and remerge the into what may be a terrifying reality or a dream. Once again we see humanity in the microcosm of one man and his surroundings.
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Rudi
4.0 out of 5 stars Good story, sad to see political point of view of Burke come out
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022
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The story is good, somewhat fantasy but the author has long had a fondness for ghosts in his books. I could have done without his subtle and not so subtle comments about Trump and Biden.....without naming them of course. One has to have a lot of money and be blind to what is going on in America today to write or say anything good about the current American President. And anyone who has served in a combat branch of the United States Military has on some level, an understanding of what the statement means, "war
is hell'.....some more than others.
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Marvin Hagler
5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordiaire
Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2022
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Le genre de livre que vous ne pouvez pas déposer sans l'avoir fini.
Des rebondissements, des personnages démoniaques, la noirceur de l'âme imprimée sur une photo du paradis terrestre.
Don't trust me, just read the book...
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C J B Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner from James Lee Burke
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2023
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As with all the books penned by James Lee Burke there are lots of troubled characters and bar room philosophy and unexpected twists and turns but the stories have a human truth about them which draws one in. A hint of 'other worldliness' only adds to sense that we are all trying to find our own place in the world.
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Clare Lockley
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
Reviewed in Australia on January 27, 2023
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A great book by my favourite modern writer.
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Marina L.
4.0 out of 5 stars This writer paints with words.
Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2021
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JLB is a word magician ... but I'm having trouble keeping going with this one because it's not a Dave Robicheaux tale. I have to really enjoy the characters to get through a book, and Dave R. was a winner from the first book, first sentence, so it means a bit of perseverance will be needed here.
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Michael F.
4.0 out of 5 stars No deterioration
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2021
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How does jlb keep up the standard?
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