White Doves at Morning

Name: White Doves at Morning
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.94 (16 reviews)
Author: James Lee Burke
ISBN: 9780743541183

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Will Patton

Abridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 11/01/2002

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Military Fiction

Synopsis

A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE

1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and irreverent Willie Burke, the son of Irish immigrants, face the trials of battle and find redemption in the love of a passionate and committed abolitionist, Abigail Downing, and in the courageous struggle of Flower Jamison, a beautiful slave. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, and penetrating a landscape of shattering Civil War bloodshed as few novels have, this epic from an American literary giant endows readers with the gift of experiencing the past through new eyes, while its timeless prose style—at once luminous and brutal—ensures the legacy of this bloodiest of conflicts will never be lost.

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 Andrew on August 04, 2017

JLB is a writer I return to time and again. He's known primarily for his crime fiction series featuring sometime cop Dave Robicheaux, based in New Iberia, Louisiana, but also for a group of novels featuring members of the Holland family. His writing is literary and his style brutal; his characters a......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on October 01, 2016

Another good book by America's best writer. Burke examines the Civil War and its immediate aftermath through they eyes of some of his relatives and some other very well drawn characters. I suspect most of the book is fiction, but the wrap up of what the characters did in later life is probably mostl......more

Goodreads review by Aditya on January 29, 2019

White Doves at Morning is a violent, epic saga about a bunch of lives irrevocably changed by the civil war. Burke maybe writing historical fiction instead of crime but he wisely sets it in Louisiana. Burke makes Louisiana come alive in a way few authors can. He describes war ravaged Louisiana in a w......more

Goodreads review by Siobhan on September 07, 2011

Count me as an unabashed James Lee Burke fan. He is among the finest mystery writers out there. I always feel like I’m in Louisiana when I’m reading one of his books – the heat and humidity, the cane breaks (I think that's how it's spelled) and bayous. He’s a wonderful writer who paints pictures wit......more

Goodreads review by Connie on June 22, 2013

I loved this book and would recommend if you like to read about the Civil War period and like a little grit. I feel that this was a true depiction of the life and times of all the people in that period. Not just the Southerners, but the Northerners as well. I felt moved by some of the words in this......more