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Summary: "Written over the course of twenty-five years, the stories in What Burns examine the extremes of desire against a backdrop of family, class, and mortality. In 'Bliss', a young man befriends the convicted felon who murdered his mother when he was only a child. In 'Not Even Camping Is Like Camping Anymore', a teenage boy fends off the advances of a five-year-old his mother babysits. And in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PECBurke, James Lee
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024