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.
Description:
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.