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For fans of James Lee Burke and Dave Robicheaux, THE CONVICT AND OTHER STORIES is a superb collection of stories set in and around the American Deep South and its charismatic people. From New Orleans to Dallas, with excursions further
...(more) afield in Korea and Vietnam, James Lee Burke's characters live out lives of laughter and tragedy, mystery and intrigue, finding the memorable in the commonplace and bringing vividly to life the heat and dust of Southern life.(less)
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Source: The Convict, Page: 79
Contributed by: David.
From the story We Build Churches, Inc.
“What you got to understand is I'm a practical man,” he said. “I have one foot solidly in this world. That's because I come from a family that never got lost in the next world. We knew how to hold on to a big chunk of this one and deal with it.”