Books by Shannon Burke and Complete Book Reviews

Shannon Burke, Author . Random $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6201-0
In this dark, tender debut, Frank Verbeckas is a young paramedic patrolling the mean streets of Manhattan. Frank's real passion, however, is photography; he's constantly snapping pictures of injured and dead bodies while on his rounds. "I
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Shannon Burke, Author . Counterpoint/Soft Skull $14.95 (185p) ISBN 978-1-59376-191-2
Gunshot wounds, crack pipes and rotting corpses abound in this raw and fascinating novel about Harlem paramedics in the mid-1990s, the second novel from former EMT Burke. Oliver Cross graduated from Northwestern as a middle-class do-gooder. But he...
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Shannon Burke. Pantheon, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-90892-6
Burke’s first venture into western fiction (after two novels set in the present, Safelight and Black Flies) is a masterpiece of historical accuracy and exciting storytelling. Set in the 1820s, this bawdy tale of unwashed mountain men and foul-smellin
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Shannon Burke. Pantheon, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4864-7
Burke’s lackluster latest (after Into the Savage Country) follows Willie Brennan through his teen years as he deals with his overbearing brother, Coyle, and their father, who clawed his way up from poverty on the South Side of Chicago to the North...
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