Literary Fiction
Wayfaring Stranger
2014·450 pages
A Texas teenager's fateful meeting with Bonnie and Clyde precedes his WWII service, where he rescues a comrade and discovers a survivor in a Nazi camp, before they build an oil empire amid.
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A Texas teenager's fateful meeting with Bonnie and Clyde precedes his WWII service, where he rescues a comrade and discovers a survivor in a Nazi camp, before they build an oil empire amid.
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James Lee Burke's new novel begins in West Texas in 1934, and the story begins with a fateful encounter between the narrator, Weldon Avery Holland, and the notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker - a meeting which ends with the sixteen-year-old Holland putting a bullet through the windscreen of Clyde's stolen automobile. Weldon's education in the evils that men - and women - are capable of continues as we move to the Ardennes Forest and the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, where Second Lieutenant W...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Tender central romance leading to marriage; intimate scenes implied rather than explicit.
Violence & gore
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Graphic WWII combat, executions of wounded, extermination camp with stacked bodies, tank burial.
Profanity
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Moderate strong language consistent with wartime and adult drama settings.
Substance use
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Background social drinking in military and business contexts; no addiction focus.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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Recurring themes of sin, redemption, and moral struggle without ritual or clergy.
Magic & witchcraft
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No evidence found in available sources
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Explores greed, corruption, and class power in post-war oil industry.
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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War atrocities, concentration camp victims, executions, and systemic cruelty depicted.
Other
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