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    Jesus Out to Sea: Stories (Unabridged Selections)
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    Jesus Out to Sea: Stories (Unabridged Selections)

    Written by James Lee Burke

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

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    About this audiobook

    In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits.

    The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast proves to be a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience, from love and sex to domestic abuse, to war and death and friendship.

    A Simon & Schuster audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 10, 2007
    ISBN9780743571517
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    Jesus Out to Sea: Stories (Unabridged Selections)
    Author

    James Lee Burke

    James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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    • 4/5
      Short fiction by one of my favorite contemporary novelists, the author of the Dave Robicheaux detective series set in south Louisiana. Burke is always on the raw and grim side, but with themes of redemption and the triumph of Right over Wrong-doing that make his novels rewarding to read. These short stories (some of which are extracts from his novels) are equally tough, and not quite as satisfying, although the series of related stories about boyhood friends Charlie and Nick set in pre-and post-WWII Texas are extremely moving in their exploration of what friendship is all about.Review written in 2010
    • 5/5
      The best of all current American writers. An exceptional collection of short stories taken from a variety of previously published sources. Depicts the deep south and the backwoods north east post Katrina, with a prose bordering on poetry.
    • 4/5
      Amazing Southern tales filled with adventure and intrigue! They reminded me of those short adventure books I read as a teenager - most were Scouting adventure books made for young boys with imagination ready to go.
    • 5/5
      Burke's tales depict the American scene, particularly in his native bayou country and also in the mountain Northwest of his more recent life, in vivid and often searing detail. The stories range from mostly humorous memories of boyhood encounters with colorful characters to dark accounts of corrupt, brutal and quasi-fascist elements seemingly triumphant. This collection, published soon after Hurricane Katrina devastated his beloved home region, is primarily a lament for the suffering of a people struggling for generations to survive in a cruel, but often fertile and even festive, environment. Despite the themes of poverty, ignorance and violence, Burke celebrates those brave and lonely souls who put up a fight against the darkness.
    • 5/5
      I think James Lee Burke is an amazing writer. They call him the Faulkner of crime fiction, and if you've ever read him, you'll know just how apropos that analogy is. This book is a collection of his short stories. They're both brilliant and devastating. The title story is about two men in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and it killed me.Burke is so very good at atmosphere. His descriptions of East Texas and Louisiana are so vivid and accurate, you feel as if you're there. Even if the "there" was sixty years ago. And even in short stories, he draws you into his characters' lives, makes you care about their poor sorry asses, and you can't help but grieve their losses. And these stories are all about loss. Don't pick the book up if you're looking for uplifting sunshiney tales of happiness. But if you want a good solid read, one with an emotional wallop that will stick with you for days, this is a good choice.