Harbor lights : stories / James Lee Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, James Lee, 1936- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Harbor lights (Compilation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Fiction.

United States.

Heroes--Fiction.

Heroes.

Violence--Fiction.

Violence.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

short stories.

Short stories.

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

358 pages : 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Distribution:

[Berkeley, California] : Distributed by Publishers Group West

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024.

Summary:

"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her university-professor father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose "Western hero" facade hides darkness. An oil rig worker witnesses a horrific attack on a local village while on a job in South America and seeks justice through one final act of bravery. With his nuanced characters, lyrical prose, and ability to write shocking violence in the most evocative settings, James Lee Burke's singular skills are on display in this superb anthology. Harbor Lights unfolds in stories that crackle and reverberate as unexpected heroes emerge" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Harbor lights

Going across Jordan

Big midnight special

Deportees

The assault

The wild side of life

A distant war

Strange cargo.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Burke, James Lee, 1936- Harbor lights.

ISBN:

9780802160966

0802160964

OCLC:

1401626345