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The jealous kind : a novel / James Lee Burke.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.U723 J43 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burke, James Lee, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- First loves--Fiction.
- First loves.
- History.
- Organized crime.
- Texas.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Social classes.
- Social conflict--Fiction.
- Social conflict.
- Organized crime--Texas--Fiction.
- Texas--History--1951---Fiction.
- love stories.
- Local Subjects:
- love stories.
- Texas--History--1951---Fiction.
- First loves.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Love stories.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
- Summary:
- On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath the glitz and superficial normalcy, a class war has begun, and it is nothing like the conventional portrayal of the decade. Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love and a world of violence he did not know existed. When Aaron spots the beautiful and gifted Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, Grady Harrelson, at a Galveston drive-in, he inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob and one of the richest families in Texas. He also discovers he must find the courage his father had found as an American soldier in the Great War.
- ISBN:
- 9781501107207
- 1501107208
- OCLC:
- 936620083
- Publisher Number:
- 99971326627
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