The Drop
by:
Dennis Lehane (author)
Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi...
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Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets a damaged woman looking for something to believe in. As their relationship grows, they cross paths with the Chechen mafia; a man grown dangerous with age and thwarted hopes; two hapless stick-up artists; a very curious cop; and the original owner of the puppy, who wants his dog back. . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062365446 (0062365444)
ASIN: 62365444
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Powerful compactly wound crime fiction, by the author of MYSTIC RIVER. A book that's pulled as tight as a garrot against the neck. The main character is a walking cipher, both to himself and others. His moral choices have landed him a gray world of walking alienation, but he's generally a sympatheti...
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Dennis Lehane is probably best known for his novel Mystic River and from what I understand from other reviews, he returns to Boston where the Chechen Mob runs the street and the bars: Bob Saginowskiis a lonely bartender at his cousin's bar really just looking to for something to live for. When he r...
When I read the first brief review for Dennis Lehane's The Drop, I scoffed at the mention of a dog changing a man's life. Now, I'll be one of the first people to argue for pet adoption, but I don't want to read a book about it. It would be saccharine and dull, and I can't be doing with sugary books ...
This story has seen several formats: a short story (Animal Rescue in the anthology, Boston Noir), a screenplay for the movie with the same title (Tom Hardy!! Noomi Rapace! James Gandolfini!! His last movie, actually), and now a novelization. I haven't read the short nor have I seen the movie (my sis...
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