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Zusatztext Exciting! sexy and atmospheric. Lehane's combination of dark deeds! graceful prose and sassy dialogue ensures it succeeds Informationen zum Autor Dennis Lehane is the author of bestsellers Mystic River , Shutter Island , Gone Baby Gone , and Live By Night , all of which have been made into award-winning films. He is one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed authors of his generation and the recipient of the Shamus Award for Best First Novel, the Edgar, Anthony and Barry awards for Best Novel, and the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. His work has been translated into over three dozen languages. He has written for The Wire , Boardwalk Empire , Bloodline , and the forthcoming Mr Mercedes , based on the Stephen King novel. Dennis was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and lives in California with his family. Klappentext 'Lehane is one of the great American writers' Daily Mail Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma -- and his life changes forever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America . . . A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer of The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day . A major new standalone from the acclaimed author Zusammenfassung A major new standalone from the acclaimed author
