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Jesus Out to Sea
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Jesus Out to Sea Paperback - 2007

by James Lee Burke

One of the countrys most acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered on the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.


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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.

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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.

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  • Title Jesus Out to Sea
  • Author James Lee Burke
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 2007-06-01
  • ISBN 9781416548560 / 1416548564
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.37 x 5.55 x 0.62 in (21.26 x 14.10 x 1.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006100977
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2007, Page 4
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2007, Page 408
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 03/15/2007, Page 46
  • Men's Journal, 06/01/2007, Page 34
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/16/2007, Page 30

About the author

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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