Jesus Out to Sea (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416548560)

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.

Author: James Lee Burke
ISBN-10: 1416548564
ISBN-13: 9781416548560
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.37h x 5.55w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2007 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2007 pg. 30
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2007 pg. 408
Booklist 04/15/2007 pg. 4
Men's Journal 06/01/2007 pg. 34