The Convict and Other Stories
Title | The Convict and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | James Lee Burke |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2010-07-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1451618476 |
One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat—the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast—in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.
The Convict and Other Stories
Title | The Convict and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | James Lee Burke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Louisiana |
ISBN |
The Convict and the Other Stories
Title | The Convict and the Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | James Lee Burke |
Publisher | Voice |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780786889655 |
For fans of James Lee Burke and Dave Robicheaux, THE CONVICT AND OTHER STORIES is a superb collection of stories set in and around the American Deep South and its charismatic people. From New Orleans to Dallas, with excursions further afield in Korea and Vietnam, James Lee Burke's characters live out lives of laughter and tragedy, mystery and intrigue, finding the memorable in the commonplace and bringing vividly to life the heat and dust of Southern life.
The Gambler
Title | The Gambler PDF eBook |
Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Russia |
ISBN |
The Convict
Title | The Convict PDF eBook |
Author | James Lee Burke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN | 9780752801643 |
Author on the Dave Robicheaux mystery series offers twelve stories of loss, courage, violence, betrayal and friendship set in America's south and battlefields around the world.
The Dancer in Red, and Other Stories
Title | The Dancer in Red, and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Fergus Hume |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Convict
Title | The Convict PDF eBook |
Author | James Lee Burke |
Publisher | Hyperion |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780786881437 |
A fetching new edition of a collection of nine award-winning short stories by the best-selling author of the Dave Robicheaux detective novels, including Dixie City Jam, is set along the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Texas. Reprint.