James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (USA 2021) From the Publisher: Iry Paret's done his time -- two years for manslaughter in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. In prison, Iry tinkered with a song -- "The Lost Get-Back Boogie" -- that never came out quite right. Now, the Riordan family's problems hand him a new kind of trouble, with some tragic consequences. And Iry must get the tune right at last, or pay a fateful price. James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. A Novel. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781982183424 (June, 2021), 304 p., $17.00.
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James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (UK 2012) From the Publisher: The man who can help already has troubles of his own. Iry Paret is trying put the past behind him, having served time for accidentally killing a man. He heads west to make a fresh start in Montana on Frank's ranch. But he hadn't expected to fall in love with the estranged wife of Frank's son, a strong, dynamic and beautiful woman who will test the limits of Iry's loyalty to his friends. James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Orion Books, ISBN: 9781409109532 (December, 2012), 336 p., £7.99.
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James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (UK 2010) From the Publisher: The man who can help already has troubles of his own. Iry Paret is trying put the past behind him, having served time for accidentally killing a man. He heads west to make a fresh start in Montana on Frank's ranch. But he hadn't expected to fall in love with the estranged wife of Frank's son, a strong, dynamic and beautiful woman who will test the limits of Iry's loyalty to his friends. James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Orion eBook, ISBN: 9781409132912 (November, 2010), 774 KB (ca. 262 p.), £5.99.
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James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (USA 2010) From the Publisher: James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Pocket eBook, ISBN: 9781451618464 (July, 2010), 879 KB (ca. 418 p.), $9.99.
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James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (USA 2006) From the Publisher: James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Pocket Star, ISBN: 1416517065 (March, 2006), 376 p., $9.99.
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James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (USA 2004) From the Publisher: Reviews of The Lost Get-Back Boogie now seem prescient. "This is the book that Burke was born to write -- and you're grateful he did," wrote syndicated reviewer Nancy Pate. "It's the sort of novel that could win Burke a wider readership," said the Wichita Eagle-Beacon. And from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Lost Get-Back Boogie was my introduction to Burke, and it is a cherished one. Burke demonstrates a rare ability to write an extraordinarily propulsive tale that borders on genre fiction without ever being less than literature." The novel's title is also the name of the song that Iry Paret -- a honky-tonk musician, Korean vet, and ex-con -- wants to write to hold his memories of a "more uncomplicated time," before the war, before prison. The book opens the day thirty-year-old Iry leaves Louisiana's Angola state penitentiary, after serving two years for manslaughter, and follows him to Montana, where he hopes to stay cool and out of trouble by working hard on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. Iry finds the fresh start he seeks, joins a weekend band, and even falls in love. But the Riordan family's problems deal Iry a new sort of trouble with some ultimately tragic consequences. The Lost Get-Back Boogie is a novel about loyalty and friendship, betrayal and loss. It is about essentially good people and their attempts to define the value of their lives and to find their place in a changing, complicated world. And it is the work of James Lee Burke at the top of his form. James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Foreword by Christine Wiltz. Louisiana State University Press; ISBN: 080713032X (September, 2004), 241 p., $24.95.
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James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (UK 2003) From the Publisher: James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752842676 (November, 2003); 336 p., £6.99.
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James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (USA 1997) From the Publisher: James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Hyperion; ISBN: 0786889349 (November, 1997), 323 p., $5.99.
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James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie (USA 1995) From the Publisher: James Lee Burke: The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Hyperion; ISBN: 0786881011 (October, 1995), 240 p., $11.95.
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