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Harbor lights : and other stories

Burke, James Lee, 1936-2024
Large Print
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 and 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 organisers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose 'Western hero' façade 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.
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Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
[Waterville, Maine] : Large Print Press, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
517 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Harbor lights -- Going across Jordan -- Big midnight special -- Deportees -- The assault -- The wild side of life -- A distant war -- Strange cargo.
ISBN:
9781420519051
Language:
English
BRN:
175967
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