The given day

a novel

704 pages

English language

Published May 2, 2008 by William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-688-16318-1
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Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day 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. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his …

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Review of 'The given day' on 'Goodreads'

Our book group read and thoroughly enjoyed this novel...a big, brawling, well written read based on the Boston policemen's strike of 1919, together with all of the embedded politics, racism, and corruption. Lehane does well with this kind of book. In some ways it's traditionally masculine, yet it manages to have a universal appeal.

Review of 'The given day' on 'Goodreads'

Too long and I didn't care about the characters. Only redemption was that I learned about the Boston police strike in 1915 and the red scare - neither of which I'd know (much) about. He tried to weave in a minor plotline with Babe Ruth that made no sense to me. Wouldn't recommend.

Review of "Un pays à l'aube" on 'Goodreads'

Dennis Lehane avait déclaré lors du FIRN 2007 qu’il ne reprendrait pas la série des Kenzie & Gennaro, à moins d’avoir besoin de se faire construire une piscine. Apparemment, il a finalement eu besoin d’une piscine, puisque qu’il a ajouté un épisode à la saga, Moonlight Mile. Mais entre-temps, Lehane nous a pondu un roman hors norme, qui sort de ses intrigues policières habituelles. En quelques mots, on pourrait dire qu’Un pays à l’aube concentre tout ce que l’on peut trouver de mieux chez Lehane. Et plus encore. Au moins. Dennis Lehane est un grand, il n’y a qu’à lire Mystic River, Shutter Island ou n’importe quel épisode de Kenzie & Gennaro pour se prendre une belle baffe à chaque fois.

Cette fois-ci l’auteur abandonne le polar mais ne renie pas pour autant le milieu policier. Il plante son décor à Boston, à la fin de le Première Guerre mondiale, …

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Subjects

  • Boston (Mass.). -- Police Dept. -- Fiction
  • Police Strike, Boston, Mass., 1919 -- Fiction