This quickly jumped into my list of favorite novels! Not only is it impeccably researched and details dramatic historical events in Boston of 1919, it also follows truly relatable and engaging characters. The book follows two young men, one black and one white, who get caught up in the social and po...
I’m back from a week’s visit home, and with my remaining days off work, I finally got around to finishing The Given Day. I picked it up after enjoying Mystic River so much, and at the urging of my roommate.This is not the kind of novel I’d normally read. This whopping, 700-page beast of a book is a ...
I wish we could give half stars because this is more of a 3 and a half star book. The first 400-500 pages where really good, sucked me in, great characters, great writing etc. The last 200-300 pages dragged a bit for me unfortunately and I started to skim read over all the union stuff to get back to...
This novel took 6 years in a making - and when it FINALLY came out, I just burst up with excitement because Dennis Lehane is one of my favorite authors. The length of the book worried me at first (702 pages, in hardcover!). Then the fact that it's a historical fiction -- I am used to his mystery/det...
Lehane is a wonderful writer. Mystic River was his opus magnus, and his Boston hard-boileds are quite good. This novel is his attempt to break out into a larger literary world. Set in the period around World War I, Lehane offers us a sense of the times, and they are not pretty. The two primary chara...
7/26/08: I'm half-done, and half in love. Oh, it's a realistic love, of warts as well as wonders, but I admit: I'm a sucker for a book so fully invested in exploring the deep rifts and crimes of class and race in America. Lehane's novel opens with a baseball game, inviting comparisons to DeLillo, ...
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