num_pages: 240
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.
language: English
title: Jesus Out to Sea
titlecomplete: Jesus Out to Sea
genres: Noir, Mystery, Southern, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 1066
publisher: Simon  Schuster