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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Short stories from Dennis Lehane - with the emphasis on short ! (if he could have come up with a few more it would have been nice). Fleshed out by the play adaptation of Until Gwen they're all good reads but docked one star for number of them. (  ) andy475uk | Oct 20, 2009 |  Enjoyable read that shows the promise of the writer to come. ( ) kwreeves | Feb 11, 2009 | This collection of short stories and one play didn't really do much for me. Admittedly, I am not a fan of the genre but I have enjoyed several of Lehane's previous mysteries and thought I'd give it a try. I thought the first story was perhaps the most well-crafted "Running out of Dog," certainly its characters were the most developed. The play 'Coronado' was also pretty good and a bit clever. My problem with the collection is two-fold. One: the writing is a bit crude and raunchy for my taste. His novels were not as sexually explicit. And two: nothing stands out to me as being particularly memorable. I just finished it less than 24 hours ago and I am struggling to remember the few stories in between the first and the last. I think Lehane should stick to writing crime drama and Bostonia -- he is much better at the full-legnth novel. This collection was a passable airplane read but isn't able to rise much above that. ( ) jhowell | Oct 28, 2008 | Several well-written and compelling stories and a play (Coronado) based on on one of the stories (Until Gwen). I haven't read any of Lehane's novels yet, but I probably will now. (  ) Hagelstein | Feb 2, 2008 | This book arrived latish last year as an unsolicited review book. I have read MYSTIC RIVER and SHUTTER ISLAND and enjoyed both of them and anticipated enjoying this one. On the surface it is a collection of short stories, written I suspect over a quite a long period of time, and of varying quality. One, ICU, in which an innocent man is stalked wherever he goes by a gang of men for doing goodness-knows-what is really interesting. However the last part of the book is the script for the play CORONADO which the blurb tells me is an acclaimed play. The cast for two of the play's productions are listed. It premiered in in a Greenwich Village theatre in late 2005, and then was produced again in Florida in January 2006. What annoyed me more than anything that it was a re-write/expansion into dialogue of one of the stories in the book called UNTIL GWEN. In an introduction to the play script Lehane says that he had to write the play because UNTIL GWEN felt like a story he hadn't completed and couldn't get out of his mind. On some level I felt I'd been "had". Others will no doubt enjoy it and rave over it. And don't get me wrong - the stories, especially ICU, are quite good, so perhaps its a book to dip into. And let me be the first to admit the play may be much better in production than in script form. ( ) smik | Jun 3, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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From Dennis Lehane, the award-winning author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and the Kenzie-Gennaro series, comes a striking collection of five short stories and a play.
A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle. . . .
A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger. . . . An innocent man is hunted by government agents for an unspecified crime.
. . . A boy and a girl fall in love while ransacking a rich man's house during the waning days of the Vietnam War. . . . A compromised psychiatrist confronts the unstable patient he slept with. . . . A father and a son wage a lethal battle of wits over the whereabouts of a stolen diamond and a missing woman. . . . Along with completely original material, this new col-lection is a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously published short stories, including "Until Gwen," which was adapted for the stage in 2005 and appears in this book as the play Coronado.
At turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these tales journey headlong into the heart of our national myths—about class, gender, freedom, and regeneration through violence—and reveal that the truth waiting for us there is not what we'd expect.
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:00 -0400)
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