Cimarron rose / a novel by James Lee Burke.
Record details
- ISBN: 0786862580
- Physical Description: 288 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Hyperion, 1997.
- Copyright: ©1997
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Subject: | Trials (Murder) > Texas > Fiction. Teenage boys > Texas > Fiction. Texas > Fiction. |
Genre: | Legal fiction (Literature) Detective and mystery fiction. |
Available copies
- 61 of 61 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Montgomery City Public. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 61 total copies.
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Montgomery City Public Library | F Bur (Text) | 31927000004600 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Adair County Public Library | A F Burke (Text) | 34029000649748 | Fiction | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Aurora Library | FIC BUR (Text) | 37884001279474 | Fiction | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library | FIC BUR (Text) | 37884001279458 | Fiction | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Marionville Library | M BUR (Text) | 37884001279417 | Mystery | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Mt. Vernon Library | M BUR (Text) | 37884001279441 | Mystery | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Pierce City Library | FIC BUR (Text) | 37884101043739 | Fiction | Available | - |
Barton County - Lamar | FIC BUR (Text) | 319787869258 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bollinger County Library | MYS F Bur (Text) | 32713111181991 | Mystery | Available | - |
Bowling Green Public Library | Fic Bur (Text) | 35030000000617 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Camdenton | FIC BURKE (Text) | 31320000141429 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Sunrise Beach | FIC BURKE (Text) | 31320002000540 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cameron Public Library | MYS BUR (Text) | 32311111135063 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
Carrollton Public Library | FIC BUR (Text) | 30183000007044 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Carthage Public Library | FIC Burke, James (Text) | 34MO200126516X | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Caruthersville Public Library | F BUR (Text) | 38417000007825 | Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Drexel | F BUR 1997 (Text) | 0002204627059 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Garden City | F BUR 1997 (Text) | 0002204612358 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Harrisonville | F BUR (Text) | 0002200095962 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | F BUR (Text) | 0002201404023 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
De Soto Public Library | F BURKE James Lee (Text) | 33858000043721 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas County Public Library | F BUR (Text) | 35633000021239 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Dulany Memorial Library | FIC BUR (Text) | 35712000015745 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Festus Public Library | Fic Burke (Text) | 32017000035857 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Grundy County Jewett Norris | F BUR (Text) | 33577000015435 | Fiction (Adult) | Available | - |
Henry County - Main Library | Fic B91J (Text) | I0000000119001 | Fiction | Available | - |
Howard County Public Library | F/BUR (Text) | 34658000074422 | Mystery | Available | - |
James Memorial Public Library | AF BUR\Burke, James (Text) | 37211000083202 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | F MYSTERY BURKE James (Text) | 30061009000924 | Mystery | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Northwest | F BURKE James (Text) | 30000024980652 | Fiction | Available | - |
Keller Public Library-Dexter | Fic Burke (Text) | 3376400000845 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Lebanon-Laclede County Library | F Burke (Text) | 3801685721 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | F Burke (Text) | 2001555237 | Adult Fiction Shelves | Available | - |
Livingston County Library - Main Library | BURKE Billy Bob #1 (Text) | 2600701389 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mississippi County - Clara Drinkwater Newnam Library | F BUR (Text) | 38530100008574 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mississippi County - Mitchell Memorial Branch Library | F BUR (Text) | 38530100061862 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Neosho Newton - Seneca | BURKE, JAMES (Text) | 34162001110483 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Nevada Public Library | Fic Bur (Text) | 32770114365786 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Oregon County - Thayer Public Library | Fic Bur holland #1 (Text) | 3THAY00002724M | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Polk County Library-Bolivar | FIC BUR (Text) | 34531000103831 | Fiction | Available | - |
Polk County Library-Humansville | FIC BUR (Text) | 34531000139792 | Fiction | Available | - |
Putnam County Public Library | M BUR (Text) | 33192000066205 | Mystery Fiction | Available | - |
Ralls County Library | FIC BUR (Text) | 33200000000268 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ray County Library | F BUR (Text) | 2900163889 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Reynolds County Library - Centerville Branch | F BUR (Text) | 3247100332727 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Reynolds County Library - Lesterville Library | F BUR (Text) | 3247100364149 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Riverside Regional-Main | F BUR (Text) | 30000001340771 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Riverside Regional-Perryville | F BU (Text) | 30000001157910 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Rolla Public Library | FIC BUR (Text) | 38256100513559 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Salem Public Library | F Bur (Text) | 38264100059656 | Fiction | Available | - |
Library Journal Review
Cimarron Rose
Library Journal
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Burke gives the beloved Dave Robicheaux (e.g., Cadillac Jukebox, LJ 8/96) a vacation and shines his talent on the vast, brooding beauty and inbred violence of rural Texas. Texas Ranger-turned-lawyer Billy Bob Holland must defend his illegitimate son, Lucas Smothers, on a murder rap. Billy Bob knows that backwater Deaf Smith, Texas, will eat Lucas for lunch‘especially the East Enders, the town's pocket of elite kids. He mounts his defense with sporadic help from sexy cop/possible federal agent Mary Beth Sweeney. Some uniquely Southern weirdos wind up in Lucas's and Billy Bob's orbit, including newly freed and ax-grinding con Garland T. Moon. Along with an evocative sense of place rendered in the Burke tradition, Billy Bob's humanity suffuses every page with a warm, golden glow. Readers will undoubtedly fall for him as he lassos a child abuser in the center of town and argues with the ghost of his slain Ranger partner. Highly recommended. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/97.]‘Susan A. Zappia, Maricopa Cty. Lib. Dist., Phoenix (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Cimarron Rose
Kirkus Reviews
Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
You can take Burke out of Louisiana's Iberia Parish (Cadillac Jukebox, 1996, etc.), but you can't take Iberia out of Burke, as this tangled tale of Texas murder and memory makes wondrously clear. Without his r‚sum‚ in front of you, you could never tell lawyer Billy Bob Holland (ex-Texas Ranger, ex-assistant US attorney) from Iberia's Dave Robicheaux. Billy Bob's passion for justice, like Dave's, is constantly battling the other passions that have engendered an unacknowledged son, Lucas Smothers, and that keep sending him into battle armed with more than his legal briefs. When Lucas is arrested for raping and murdering Roseanne Hazlitt, there's no question but that Billy Bob will defend him; the only question is how far he'll go. Ranged against Lucas are dyslexic, psychopathic Darl Vanzandt, the spoiled son of a wealthy East End millionaire; Garland T. Moon, the rabid jailmate whose off-the-record confession to a California murder Lucas overhears from his neighboring cell; and just about every law enforcement official resident in Deaf Smith, Texas, from smarmy jailer Harley Sweet to Mexican drug agent Felix Ringo. Burke saves Lucas's murder trial for the end, but the real action takes place long beforehand, as Billy Bob goes head to head with Ringo, Moon, the Vanzandts, two sheriffs, and his own defense witnesses. Each confrontation, as in the Dave Robicheaux novels, is engorged by the hero's overwhelming memories of his own family's involvement with evil: his father's violent death; his great- grandfather's spectral romance with Jennie, the outlaw Rose of Cimarron; and his own accidental killing of L.Q. Navarro, the Ranger partner who haunts his daily rounds as if he hadn't been dead 11 years. Other riddles about the past keep the pot boiling so furiously it's a wonder Burke can get it to the table. All the roiling intensity of the Robicheaux stories. Even the ragged ends make other mystery novels look anemic. (Author tour)
BookList Review
Cimarron Rose
Booklist
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Before Burke launched his Dave Robicheaux series, he wrote several hard-edged, proletarian novels set in and around Texas. Now he returns to that setting for a new series that stars a Robicheaux-like character in the hardscrabble world of Deaf Smith, Texas. Billy Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger turned lawyer, is a man with a past, and when a teenager is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, that past makes its presence felt. Billy Bob agrees to defend Lucas Smothers, knowing that the boy is his illegitimate son and realizing that the trial will bring pain to both of them. Defending his son takes Billy Bob in some other directions he isn't quite prepared to go: toward a coming to terms with his own (Robicheaux-like) propensity for violence; toward a confrontation with the intolerant, hate-filled citizenry of Deaf Smith; and deep into the past, there to revisit his great-grandfather Sam, "who fought whiskey and Indians and cow thieves and . . . watched gully washers or dry lightning spook his herds over half of Oklahoma Territory." By moving west, Burke has given new dimension to his familiar theme of a rugged individual in conflict with himself. Issues of independence versus community have long reigned supreme in the literature of the West, and Burke draws on that tradition effectively, contrasting the dusty desperation of an intolerant Texas town with the pioneer spirit of Billy Bob's ancestors. Both similar to and different from the Robicheaux books, Cimarron Rose is a fine, multitextured novel, full of Burke's lilting, elegiac prose and unflinching in its portrait of the human heart in turmoil. --Bill Ott