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Dennis Lehane

Author of Shutter Island

50+ Works 40,995 Members 1,489 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Works by Dennis Lehane

Shutter Island (2003) 8,482 copies, 331 reviews
Mystic River (2001) 6,461 copies, 150 reviews
Gone, Baby, Gone (1998) 3,266 copies, 97 reviews
The Given Day (2008) 3,262 copies, 152 reviews
A Drink Before the War (1994) 3,101 copies, 92 reviews
Prayers for Rain (1999) 2,365 copies, 53 reviews
Darkness, Take My Hand (1996) 2,340 copies, 79 reviews
Moonlight Mile (2010) 2,151 copies, 113 reviews
Sacred (1997) 2,101 copies, 64 reviews
Live by Night (2012) 1,805 copies, 86 reviews
Since We Fell (2017) 1,591 copies, 80 reviews
Small Mercies (2023) 1,122 copies, 65 reviews
World Gone By (2015) 821 copies, 44 reviews
The Drop (2014) 722 copies, 46 reviews
Coronado (2006) 697 copies, 18 reviews
Boston Noir (2009) — Editor — 325 copies, 11 reviews
The Mighty Johns (2002) 107 copies, 2 reviews
Boston Noir 2: The Classics (2012) — Editor — 75 copies, 4 reviews
Red Eye (2014) 20 copies
Until Gwen (2004) 9 copies
Mystic river 2 copies
Milk Fever (2009) 1 copy
Egymásba veszve (2017) 1 copy
The Wire 1 copy
Take My Hand 1 copy

Associated Works

The Terrorists (1976) — Introduction, some editions — 1,044 copies, 29 reviews
The Best American Short Stories 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 741 copies, 6 reviews
FaceOff (2014) — Contributor — 574 copies, 35 reviews
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Contributor — 517 copies, 7 reviews
The Death of Sweet Mister (2001) — Foreword, some editions — 445 copies, 24 reviews
The Best American Noir of the Century (2010) — Contributor — 433 copies, 8 reviews
Shutter Island [2010 film] (2010) — Original novel — 402 copies, 9 reviews
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 199 copies, 5 reviews
Vengeance (2012) — Contributor — 191 copies, 17 reviews
The Best American Mystery Stories : 2010 (2010) — Contributor — 170 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Mystery Stories : 2000 (2000) — Contributor — 158 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Mystery Stories : 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 129 copies, 3 reviews
A New Omnibus of Crime (2005) — Contributor — 106 copies, 2 reviews
USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series (2013) — Contributor — 97 copies, 11 reviews
Murder and Obsession: 15 New Original Stories (1999) — Author — 61 copies, 1 review
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 (2022) — Contributor — 50 copies, 4 reviews
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years (2014) — Contributor — 39 copies, 1 review
New Stories from the South 2005: The Year's Best (2005) — Contributor — 30 copies
Collectibles (2021) — Contributor — 29 copies, 1 review
Cuentos inéditos — Contributor — 1 copy

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Wow. If you're looking for a lighthearted romp of a mystery like a Peter Wimsey or a Nero Wolfe, stay far away from this novel. But if you want great writing, a completely gripping plot, fantastic main characters, and chilling villains, and can handle significant amounts of unpleasantness, pick this up. I started this with breakfast on Sunday and finished it (at 2am!) on Monday morning, because it was so hard to put down. I am so reading the rest of this series when I get my hands on them.
Genere insolito a cavallo tra il romanzo storico, il noir, il poliziesco. Il finale è malinconico ma non senza speranza. Un ottimo lavoro che illustra un pezzo di storia americana non precisamente onorevole: l'oppressione dei lavoratori, il perbenismo, le mazzette, la guerra agli scioperi, il maccartismo, la caccia agli immigrati sovversivi che affianca il disprezzo ancora molto forte verso i connazionali di colore, la descrizione della folla durante i tumulti di Boston. Siamo nel 1918, il show more mondo sta cambiando, e ogni cambiamento chiede le sue vittime, vittime che, pur nella sconfitta personale, hanno avuto il merito di rivendicare diritti che loro non avranno ma a cui arriveranno le generazioni successive. In questo sta la forza dignitosa degli sconfitti, che trovano nell'amore l'unico senso, l'unica cosa per la quale merita vivere. A mio parere il libro è molto cinematografico. La storia della famiglia Coughlin, con la sua serie di sventure e di fallimenti che si intrecciano alla Storia mi ha fatto pensare, anche se ovviamente sono due lavori completamente diversi, allo spaccato della storia italiana fatto da Marco Tullio Giordana ne "La meglio gioventù". Non metto 5 stelle per La lentezza di alcune parti e la crudezza di altre, a volte forse un po' troppo ricercata. Ma è un ottimo libro. show less
Pensaba que el mejor Thriller psicológico que había leído era el de Terapia de Sebastian Fitzek, pero eso era porque no había leído antes Shutter Island de Dennis Lehane.

Que pedazo de historia, que pedazo de libro y que pedazo de escritor, es que todavía estoy sin palabras, ni siquiera sé cómo hacer esta reseña, imposible decir de que va este libro porque cualquier cosa que escriba sería hacer un spoiler.

Tengo que hacer además un grande “Mea culpa” ya que había cometido el show more enorme error de no haber leído antes a Dennis Lehane, si este libro es una pauta para otros, creo que me espera una fiesta literaria en el futuro, creo que he leído muy pocos escritores que me hayan llevado a través de sus líneas a un punto de no retorno.

Sin duda Lehane no solo escribe bien, tiene una prosa magnifica, claro, pero es que además me ha llevado a una locura tal, me ha trasmitido todo lo que leía, este libro realmente me ha metido en la verdadera enfermedad mental que se respira en Shutter Island y a pesar de que había tantas cosas ahí, no pude, ni por error adivinar el final.

De verdad me faltan palabras para poder expresar lo mucho que me ha gustado e impactado este libro, el final es una verdadera genialidad, no solo es sorprendente, además es tan controlado, llevado a cabo con bisturí, impactante, cuando he leído ese final podía perfectamente imaginarme que el autor se imaginó primero ese final y a base de eso desarrollo toda su historia.

Por supuesto no había visto la película, no pude evitarlo, tuve que verla una vez que termine el libro, aunque el final está algo cambiado, nada importante realmente y por supuesto hay cosas algo diferentes, hay que decir que la película está bastante bien hecha y refleja mucho el libro, pero la cuestión aquí es que a la película le falta alma, imposible que transmita los pensamientos y sentimientos que refleja el libro.

Un thriller psicológico sin parangón, de lo mejor que he leído en mi vida en este género y obviamente me tengo que aplicar y leer todo lo que encuentre de este autor ¡Que bien escribe Lehane!
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This was another Lehane that made me think a lot. Please don't get me wrong, I am against any form of racism, but the way the solutions were implemented in Boston to bring about mixing was doomed to failure in my eyes. How is this supposed to work when children are bussed across the city to attend a school where there are mixed races? The question that should have been asked is how to mix neighbourhoods so that different ethnicities can live together and the school would also be mixed. This show more is hardly possible in America because rich parents send their children to private schools and the public schools (as it seems here in Switzerland) do not have the best reputation.
The second focus is drug dealing and consumption. How easy it is as an Irish population that is against the mixing of the races, but big in the drugs business, to blame all misdeeds on the weak population. They are often supported/covered up by the 'white' police.
Sometimes I felt really sick while reading, with so much injustice. And I ask myself, when I look at today's American politics from a distance, why after so many years the USA has somehow still not come up with a solution to racism.
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