The Given Day, Dennis Lehane
The Given Day, Dennis Lehane
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The Given Day

Author: Dennis Lehane

Narrator: Michael Boatman

Unabridged: 23 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/28/2008


Synopsis

From Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, comes the paperback edition of The Given Day, an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history 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.

About Dennis Lehane

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.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Lee on 2009-01-27 09:23:48

This book although long, held my attention and I could almost not put it down. I see this as a movie but much will have to be shortened. Great characters, wonderful story line and an intertwining of history. Get this book, sit down and enjoy.

Goodreads review by Will

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......more

Goodreads review by Baba

Coughlin book No. 1. After being flabbergasted by how great the last book of this trilogy was, I returned back in time to read the story of the Coughlin family (Boston police centred) in the years after the First World War ended, and not only was I in awe of the story, characters and world building,......more

The size of this novel equates to the size of this story: Mammoth. Huge. Epic. Lehane sweeps us into the world at the end of ww1 in Boston. It's a time of unrest, social uprising, anarchists, revolutionaries, immigrants, plagues and violence. It's the story of 2 men: One white - an Irish cop; one bl......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

Imagine an America where the wealthy people in power rule a system in which they are free to reap enormous profits through unregulated businesses while every privilege that society can offer is given to them. These titans of capitalism underpay their employees for hard labor that lasts at least twel......more