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| Original Title: | Wayfaring Stranger |
| ISBN: | 1476710791 (ISBN13: 9781476710792) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Holland Family Saga #1, Holland Family (Hackberry, Billy Bob, and Saga) #8 |
| Setting: | Texas,1934(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Hammett Prize Nominee (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2014) |
James Lee Burke
Hardcover | Pages: 435 pages Rating: 4.04 | 5582 Users | 882 Reviews
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A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde’s stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes. There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart—a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific—and Roy’s wife Clara, a vicious anti-Semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita’s life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldon’s grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldon’s plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all.
Details Regarding Books Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga #1)
| Title | : | Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga #1) |
| Author | : | James Lee Burke |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 435 pages |
| Published | : | July 15th 2014 by Simon Schuster |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Audiobook. Crime |
Rating Regarding Books Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga #1)
Ratings: 4.04 From 5582 Users | 882 ReviewsCriticize Regarding Books Wayfaring Stranger (Holland Family Saga #1)
Fuck me. Burke is such a goddamn badass.I'm not sure James Lee Burke can write a bad novel, but with this one,he's outdone himself. Beautifully written, I could not put this one down and I don't say that about many books. Except for the 2 hours I spent at my book club (which I almost missed so I could continue reading), I read this one straight through. So lyrical, some sentences seem to demand to be set to music and required re-reading just for the language.Highly recommended.
I try to read all of Mr. Burke's novels. I like all the characters. Dave Robicheaux, Billy Bob Holland, Hackberry Holland. And his other novels and characters.All that said, I think Mr James Lee Burke has outdone himself and written his best book. And I've read over 30 of his books.Here's how you can tell you are reading a great story. You can't wait to get to the last page, to find out how the story ends, and yet you don't want the book to end at all.That's "Wayfaring Stranger".
Full disclosure: I received an advance readers copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review.James Lee Burke is one of my favorite authors of all-time. Over the last 25 years or so, I've read everything he has written, and really marveled at his ability to tell stories. His writing style is one of the most poetic and evocative I've ever seen; no one can set a scene or describe a person quite like Burke.With Wayfaring Stranger, Burke departs from the usual characters he's
This is probably the most important book Burke has written to date. It is literature at its best. As much as I appreciate all his highly underrated work, this one far surpasses even Tin Roof Blow Down, which, was in my personal opinion, his best. Before that, Confederate Mist. This is not to say his other works do not pierce the psyche of his characters. They do. But this work is far different. More personal. It comes from his very soul. His treatment of the Hollands is even more complex than
"Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned is a dream written on water." I had never read anything by this author before and that was a big mistake. This was a wonderful thriller/family saga, but the best part about it was the author's use of the English language. The narrator was Weldon Holland who, when he was 16, encountered Bonnie and Clyde. This turned out to be an influential event in his life, although he thought of them as "people who had the cultural
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