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  • Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine

  • A Story from 'Jesus Out to Sea'
  • By: James Lee Burke
  • Narrated by: Ron McLarty
  • Length: 33 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine

By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
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Publisher's summary

A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.

In his moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast proves to be a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience from love and sex to domestic abuse to war and death and friendship.

Download the full short-story collection, Jesus Out to Sea.
©2007 James Lee Burke. All rights reserved (P)2007 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.
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"Burke demonstrates impressive range, sensitivity and polish in these smaller-scale gems." (Publisher's Weekly)

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I got through 19 minutes. Couldn’t push myself to finish. The whole story is consecutive, short quotes, each followed by “he said” or “she said” and it made it hard to follow the story. I listened to more than half of it and couldn’t tell you what happened I was so bored.

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