Live By Night details the lifelong career of a ganster in 1920's-1930's Boston. Lehane's gritty realism perfectly narrates a Prohibition-era landscape. He manages to bring humor into the book's darkest passages, and gives every character--no matter their crime--depth. It's funny, sharp, and tragic; ...
Updated - May 16, 2013 - see link at bottom The opening scene of Dennis Lehane’s Prohibition gangster tale, Live by Night has our hero, Joe Coughlin, on a tugboat, in the Gulf of Mexico, fitted for a nice set of cement footwear, while a dozen or so of his least favorite people prepare to help him in...
Little Joe Coughlin was only a bit player in The Given Day, but here he gets an entire novel all to himself. It's not necessary to have read The Given Day first. Live By Night makes a fine stand-alone novel. If you have read The Given Day, it will give you some understanding as to why Joe has chosen...
Won a copy from Goodreads First Reads Giveaway.Really excited about this one. I've read a few other books by Dennis Lehane and loved them.Awesome book set in the late 1920s and early 1930s during prohibition and gangster times. Started off set in Boston and then relocated to Tampa. As a Tampa native...
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