Shannon Burke

• Aug-2020
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From the acclaimed author of Black Flies and Into the Savage Country and co-creator of top-ten Netflix hit Outer Banks, a powerful new novel of class striving and the precarious dynamics of brotherhood in the Chicago suburbs of the late 1970s."In our...

• Feb-2015
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It's the early nineteenth century, and the American West is still wild and untamed. Young William Wyeth is ready to throw caution to the wind and join a fur-trapping outfit, even though it means braving wild animals, sudden blizzards, and conflicts w...

• Apr-2008
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A "raw and fascinating" novel based on the author's experiences as a New York City paramedic during the crack epidemic -- "Burke is a poet of trauma" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first ...

• Sep-2004
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It's 1990, and New York City is in shambles: unemployment reigns, crack wars rage, and whole neighborhoods burn as delinquent landlords cash in. Struggling to come to terms with his father's death, paramedic and photographer Frank Verbeckas descends ...