The Lost Get-Back Boogie

During his twenties Iry Paret took life easy and cool, playing guitar in honky-tonk bars in south Louisiana, boozing it up whenever possible, and trying to stay away from trouble. But trouble found him one night when he killed a man in a barroom fight and was later convicted of manslaughter. As James Lee Burke's remarkable new novel, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, begins, Iry has just been paroled after serving two years in the state prison at Angola. Hoping to reorder his life, he decides to se...