Jesus Out to Sea, James Lee Burke
Jesus Out to Sea, James Lee Burke
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Jesus Out to Sea

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Ron McLarty

Abridged: 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/10/2007

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 James Lee Burke

American mystery author, James Lee Burke, was born in Houston, Texas, explaining why most of the lead characters in his novels are Texan. He has won two Edgar awards, which is a very rare experience, and is a bestselling author of two short story collections and over thirty novels. Burke is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. His Edgar Awards were for Black Cherry and Cimarron Rose. Two of his series were made into screen plays with each movie having a-list actors playing the Robicheaux character (Alec Baldwin - Heaven's Prisoners, and Tommy Lee Jones- In the Electric Mist).

A writer must usually hold down other employment while they attempt to gain a degree of following readers. Burke's various jobs included.......truck driver, newspaper reporter, social worker, land surveyor, unemployment system employee, Job Corps worker, teacher, and finally, novelist.

Burke lives in Montana with his wife, Pearl, two daughters, and four grandchildren. His favorite advice was given by Irving Stone, when Burke was nineteen.......... "Never write a story to pay your gas bill......if you do, be assured your utilities will be turned off".

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mikel on July 13, 2010

Only Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke, Stephen King, and Lawrence Block seem to have the ability to make me yearn for the dying art of the short story. It's a format that's fallen out of step with the times. They're too long to be read safely in the span of a television commercial, yet too short to o......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on May 21, 2012

This book is amazing. I read it twice. Everything James Lee Burke writes, he writes well... but while reading this book, I had to keep reminding myself this really happened. You may have listened to all of the news reports about Katrina and felt sympathy for what the people there were experiencing,......more

Goodreads review by Gary on June 08, 2009

As I have to come to expect the style and skill of Burke conveys great feeling to his writing and I enjoyed all the stories. My only minor criticism of the collection is that a couple of the stories are a little similar in theme and perhaps it would have been better to separate them into different c......more

Goodreads review by Allan on August 07, 2008

I read Burke just for the beauty of his prose. The atmospheres he builds are intensely involving and his descriptions can bring tears to a statue. This brief collection of short stories, previously published in several different sources, are far ranging at times, but several are tales of Hurricane K......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on April 11, 2010

The majority of these stories are set on the Texas/Louisiana coast, and I've been tempted to read this author because he writes in that setting a lot. This collection is not an encouragement to seek his other material. Someone on this website has already typed up a random passage for me to show you: "......more

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