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Journey Home is the novel I finally finished. Here is a little blurb about the book: Journey Home is the story of Danny and his friends giving it one more try as they venture through Florida and Louisiana looking for a steady gig and something to eat. Their journey is an adventure through the salt of the earth. Along the way they meet several characters including an aspiring actress, an underworld figure, crazy or not teenagers, an old hippie and a homeless woman. Their travels take them from an old brothel on the back bay in Florida through Mississippi in the middle of the night and straight into the heart of New Orleans. There are serious issues and situations that confront each one of them as they deal with what life throws at them. Their wild and chaotic ride forces them to run and hide from a crazy world only to come to terms with themselves and it all. Burke takes us to a town that is a microcosm of the modern society we have created. It is a world fraught with crimes, indifference, and cynicism. The characters are in their individual ways disillusioned and broken souls. Journey Home is a philosophical exploration of life and its realities. With protagonists that breathe and live music, this book no doubt will please music lovers. Subtle musical references are made throughout the book. But this work is not merely about music. Paul Burke makes an ultimate statement about life and living, one that will inspire and challenge every human being about the world we have built for ourselves. The author has a long and rich background in the audio and visual arts.

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About me continued: Paul Burke has a long and rich background in the visual arts, broadcasting, music and theater. He has been creating in one medium or another for over thirty years. He spent ten of those years as a leading contributor to WLFR, a public radio station he helped to start, guide and define. He championed and interviewed individual artists such as Doc Watson, Tom Rush, Rory Block, and Arlo Guthrie. His show was dedicated to non-commercial artists and environmental causes. Through WLFR, grass roots organizations were able to express their civic concerns stopping a trash incinerator in an ecologically sensitive waterway in one instance, and moving a manufacturer to recycle in another. Journey Home is a result of the thirty plus years Paul Burke has spent in the world of audio and visual arts, performing at small venues, touring with a national theater group, and championing environmental activism.

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Reader reviews: Hello from the United Kingdom. Thanks for a brilliant book -- Terry Well done my friend!!! Loved it -- Woody "Paul, I got Journey Home sent to my house and eagerly devoured it on a trip to New York and back via a long delay courtesy Delta Airlines. You proved to be a great companion... YOU ROCK" -- Ken "I just finished reading Journey Home and I can't tell you how bowled over I am. It is so insightful and powerful and it emanates such wonderment of reality. It is Phenomenal on so many levels...tremendous!" -- Aimee' "When I first started reading Journey Home I couldn’t put it down! Each person and situation became vivid in my mind. I could feel the book. It became one with me and the sounds ... here on Big River. The unexpected twists and turns, continued to peak my interest, and the first night I read till I could see no more. Then, as I awoke I read till I was done. A book of this quality is an Amazing Gift for all to read and Understand!!!!" -- Dusty "Paul Burke is some fantastic, talented writer. Journey Home is an eye-opener. It is down to earth and humanly raw! I highly recommend it as a must read!!" Knowledge Tree Bookstore

Favorite TV Shows

Okay now for the music: As a former DJ and current performer I love everything from classical, swing and jazz to reggae and zydeco and all points in between including bluegrass, newgrass and of course rock and roll. From Buddy Holly to Elvis, The Allman Brothers Band to Mr. Jerry Garcia if it's honest and not a marketing gimmick I'm a fan. Muddy Waters and the blues, Coltrane and Monk, Telemann and Handel, Marley and Tosh variety is th spice of life!

Favorite Movies

Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, Petrified Forest (okay thats three Bogart's) The Holy Grail, Westerns, Musicals, like my music if it's honest and not a gimmick I can usually find something to like about it - not much on the guns and blowing up noise.

Favorite Books

Journey Home of course, but I also read a lot of History I'm a Civil War and Founding Fathers Buff, Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson. I love Vonnegut, Kerouac, Thompson, and I'm particularly fond of Saul Below's Henderson the Rain King, Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man and Hemingway.

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