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Wayfaring stranger [sound recording] / James Lee Burke.

Burke, James Lee, 1936- (Author). Patton, Will. (Added Author). Read by Will Patton. (Cast).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781442369924 :
  • Physical Description: 11 sound discs (ca. 13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Compact discs.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Will Patton.
Subject: Antisemitism > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Jewish women > Fiction.
Oil industries > Fiction.
Texas > History > 1846-1950 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    A decade after taking a shot at Bonnie and Clyde during one of their notorious armed robberies, a Depression teen-turned-soldier escapes death during the Battle of the Bulge and marries a beautiful young woman with whom he seeks his fortune along the Texas-Louisiana oil coast. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Light of the World. Simultaneous.
  • Baker & Taylor
    A decade after taking a shot at Bonnie and Clyde during one of their notorious armed robberies, Weldon Holland escapes death during the Battle of the Bulge and marries a beautiful young woman with whom he seeks his fortune along the Texas-Louisiana oil coast.
  • Simon and Schuster
    2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense

    In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life.

    In 1934, 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 with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark.

    Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of his sergeant, Hershel Pine, and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein'a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the strawberry blonde Bonnie Parker, and is equally mysterious. The three return to Texas where Weldon and Hershel get in on the ground floor of the nascent oil business.

    In just a few years' time Weldon will spar with the jackals of the industry, rub shoulders with dangerous men, and win and lose fortunes twice over. But it is the prospect of losing his one true love that will spur his most reckless act yet'one inspired by that encounter long ago with the outlaws of his youth.

    A tender love story and pulse-pounding thriller, Wayfaring Stranger 'is a sprawling historical epic full of courage and loyalty and optimism and good-heartedness that reads like an ode to the American Dream' (Benjamin Percy, Poets & Writers).
  • Simon and Schuster
    2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense

    In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life.

    In 1934, 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 with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark.

    Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of his sergeant, Hershel Pine, and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein'a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the strawberry blonde Bonnie Parker, and is equally mysterious. The three return to Texas where Weldon and Hershel get in on the ground floor of the nascent oil business.

    In just a few years' time Weldon will spar with the jackals of the industry, rub shoulders with dangerous men, and win and lose fortunes twice over. But it is the prospect of losing his one true love that will spur his most reckless act yet'one inspired by that encounter long ago with the outlaws of his youth.

    A tender love story and pulse-pounding thriller, Wayfaring Stranger "is a sprawling historical epic full of courage and loyalty and optimism and good-heartedness that reads like an ode to the American Dream" (Benjamin Percy, Poets & Writers).

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