Synopses & Reviews
In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits.
The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.
Review
"Burke always makes us see both the near certainty of tragedy to come and the smoldering embers of possibility in the ashes of blighted lives. He is both a deeply romantic and an unremittingly realistic writer, and it is in that tension that his lyrical prose takes flight..." Booklist
Review
"Burke's sharpness of observation and precision of language is redemptive." Rocky Mountain News
Synopsis
One of the country's most acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered on the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.
Synopsis
One of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.
In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience--from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.
Synopsis
INCLUDES THE STORY "WINTER LIGHT," THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD'S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON One of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience--from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.
About the Author
James Lee Burke is the author of nineteen books, including the bestsellers Cimarron Rose, Pegasus Descending, Cadillac Jukebox, Burning Angel, and Dixie City Jam. He lives with his wife in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.
Table of Contents
Contents
Winter Light
The Village
The Night Johnny Ace Died
Water People
Texas City, 1947
Mist
A Season of Regret
The Molester
The Burning of the Flag
Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine
Jesus Out to Sea