AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF NOVEL "THE GIVEN DAY" BY AUTHOR, DENNIS LEHANE
Item Number: 737
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Autographed copy of "The Given Day" by Dennis Lehane.
"In a splendid flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction, Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by pride and the strictures of the Catholic Church, and the plot of a multifaceted thriller. Set in Boston during and after WWI, this engrossing epic brings alive a pivotal period in our cultural maturation through a pulsing narrative that exposes social turmoil, political chicanery and racial prejudice, and encompasses the Spanish flu pandemic, the Boston police strike of 1919 and red-baiting and anti-union violence. . . . This story of fathers and sons, love and betrayal, idealism and injustice, prejudice and brotherly feeling is a dark vision of the brutality inherent in human nature and the dire fate of some who try to live by ethical standards. It's also a vision of redemption and a triumph of the human spirit. In short, this nail-biter carries serious moral gravity."
Special Instructions
Dennis Lehane, is a Boston-bred author from Dorchester. He has written several award-winning novels, including A Drink Before the War and the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Clint Eastwood. Another novel, Gone, Baby, Gone, in 2007 was also adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film directed by Ben Affleck. His novel Shutter Island was adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese in 2010.