The Convict

Hardcover | 1 November 1995

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This is a collection of stories set in locales along the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Texas and on battlefields around the world. These nine stories explore themes familiar to Burke's writings - loss and hard-won courage, betrayal and friendship, violence and heroism and inevitable death.

Industry Reviews

Burke's stories frequently set up situations for good to conquer evil, for the disadvantaged to prove themselves more alive than the advantaged, for the wronged to take revenge - there's an old-fashioned Southern liberalism to them that seems morally worthy but artistically hollow. Here, the title story, "Uncle Sidney and the Mexicans" and "Taking A Second Look" all promote a loser into a winner, with a heavy anchor of moralism weighing them down and making them predictable. Burke writes well and evocatively of Louisiana, especially that of decades back; and one story, "Losses" - a WW II Louisiana parochial school, a Catholic boy's introduction to the ambiquity of ethics - is especially satisfying (until its obvious conclusion). A Civil War story, "When It's Decoration Day," has a crammed specificity that almost gives it the ballast of a novella. But on the whole, Burke, who has mostly published novels heretofore, seems message-heavy and schematic at shorter length. (Kirkus Reviews)

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