The jealous kind / James Lee Burke.
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TextSeries: Burke, James Lee, Holland family ; 2.Publisher: London : Orion, 2017Copyright date: ©2016Description: 383 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409163497 (hardback)Subject(s): First loves -- Fiction | Social classes -- Fiction | Texas -- History -- 1951- -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) | Bildungsromans. DDC classification: 813.6 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111063491805 |
First published: 2016.
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.
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