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Harbor Lights Hardcover – January 23, 2024

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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” 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. Harbor Lights unfolds in stories that crackle and reverberate as unexpected heroes emerge.

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  6. ISBN-10
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“The Civil War comes to New Iberia, Louisiana, the capital of Burke’s wondrous fictional empire… [Readers] may well agree that it’s his most probing examination of the enduring legacy of slavery… A grueling, compassionate demonstration that ‘the devil ain’t down in a fiery pit. He’s right here.’”—Kirkus (starred review)

“A stunning work. Man’s addiction to darkness and evil is on horrific display, yet love’s fierce light shines through the poorest of souls. With a belief in God’s grace and redemption, they demand the courage to seek it, against all odds. Often I had to reread a sentence or paragraph, smiling and shaking my head at the power of words assembled that evoke emotional landslides no one creates like James Lee Burke. Get this now. It will take you apart and heal you. Lord, what a magnificent book!”—Nils Lofgren, Member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and Member of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse Band

Praise for James Lee Burke:

“James Lee Burke is the reigning champ of nostalgia noir.”—New York Times Book Review

“You can always count on Burke to deliver a white-hot page-turner.”—AARP Magazine

“Burke’s evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder.”—Entertainment Weekly

“One of the finest novelists in North America.”—Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

“James Lee Burke is one of a small handful of elite suspense writers whose work transcends the genre, making the leap into capital-L Literature.”—Bookpage

About the Author

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atlantic Monthly Press (January 23, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0802160964
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802160966
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He’s authored thirty-seven novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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Rob St. Clair
5.0 out of 5 stars These are very dark tales, but oh-so-well written.
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024
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These are very dark tales, but oh-so-well written. If you’re a James Lede Burke fan, you’ll just shake your head. “Harbor Lights” is a collection of eight stories that 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. Some of the stories: As an atmosphere of suspicion pervades their Louisiana town, a boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker. 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” 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, complex 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. Easily 5-stars, a collection of stories that you’ll want to reread one day.
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Christine DeSmet
4.0 out of 5 stars Good explorations of characters yet again
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
I liked this collection of short stories and a couple of novellas, quintessential Burke with deep characterizations and lyrical prose at times. Burke never spares the reader and gets to the heart of what’s wrong with humans. He knows how to catch characters at their worst and best moments on the page. There’s always deep and surprising thinking, and a shocker, too, with every turn of the page, as characters change or grow or regress. ~ Christine DeSmet
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R. Phisteri
5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding story collection from the master
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024
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I have read all of James Lee Burke’s books at least once and some I read 2-3 times. They are like stepping into a painting filled with wonder and danger and anger and self doubt and righteousness all at the same time. Each story feels like a complete, haunting novel. Readers of Mr Burke will recognize several characters and situations from his other novels. These works stand on their own. Just amazing.
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Ralph King
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure poetry. JLB is aging beautifully.
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2024
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As a Southerner I hardly know what to think about JLB's wistful thoughts about our past. My family were classic Southern, delusional but heroic. Just the way he writes about them. A very strange mix of tragic and heroic indeed. Thanks Mr. Burke for helping me understand the forces that have shaped me.
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James D. Adams
5.0 out of 5 stars What can I say?
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024
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James Lee Burke is one of my favorite authors and this is one of five of his books I didn't have. The stories are short and thought provoking. I took it to read for a sleep study test and had difficulty putting it down to go to sleep! LOL
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Azores traveler
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing like always
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024
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His books are so well written they bring you into a world you can’t even understand. Very few writers have this gift. John Steinbeck did. It’s amazing.
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Michael Burke
4.0 out of 5 stars Harbor Lights in Murky Waters
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
Four stars. I cannot believe I would give James Lee Burke anything less than five, but here it is.

“Harbor Lights” is a collection of short stories by one of our greatest writers. I have read dozens of his books through the years and, even at 87, he shows no signs of slowing down, with a much-anticipated novel, “Clete,” scheduled for June and another, “Don’t Forget Me Little Bessie,” finished and slated for next year.

What “Harbor Lights” brings us is a theme Mr. Burke has been focusing on the past few years. In the witnessing of good versus evil, he remains convinced that some people are different, springing from a different gene pool, with the capacity and nature to bully. It is the burden of good people to confront this evil– frequently in these stories in a violent way. Burke’s heroes are often men moved to their violent side due to some uncontrollable episode or justifiable response to the harm to others.

Burke’s works have always had violence woven in, with the evil in the past walking hand in hand with the evil of the present; as he says, since Cain bashed Abel with the rock The same venom which fed the atrocities of slavery still runs in the veins of many today. In his last few books, I keep harkening back to the disillusioned Sheriff Ed Tom Bell from Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men,” an older man unable to fathom the evil people are capable of.

“Harbor Lights” is a five-star read, but a four for me. His prose is beautiful, his characters unforgettable, the plotlines riveting, and there are always thought-provoking themes. I just want to see a glimmer of hope from one of my favorite authors, but he is painting very believable cages of despair. On the plus side, I am champing at the bit to tear into June’s “Clete” release. Clete from the Robicheaux series is one of my favorite characters and it is about time he gets his own vehicle.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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kevin c kelly
5.0 out of 5 stars JLB can do no wrong!
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
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A fabulous read - looking forward to Clete!
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