The Given Day - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels—including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island ; and The Given Day —as well as Coronado , a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family. Klappentext "Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."?New York Times Now available with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane Dennis Lehane's beautifully written novel tells the story of two families?one black, one white?swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, it explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. Zusammenfassung "Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic.  The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."— New York Times Now available with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane Dennis Lehane’s beautifully written novel tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, it explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. ...

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Lehane
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2021
• EAN: 9780063083745
• ISBN: 978-0-06-308374-5
• No. of pages: 720
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Joe Coughlin Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), First World War fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Historical / World War I, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION: Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II