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Live by Night

Name: Live by Night
Brand: HarperCollins US
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Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

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Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.

Hailed by Janet Maslin in the New York Times as 'sentence-by-sentence pleasure' Dennis Lehane's Live by Night is an epic, unflinching tale of Prohibition and one man's rise from petty thief on the streets of Boston to the greatest rum runner on the Gulf Coast. Meticulously researched and artfully told, Lehane solidifies his reputation 'among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category (Washington Post).

"A meticulously crafted portrait of our violent national past."-Washington Post Book World

Now
available with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling author
Dennis Lehane's epic, unflinching tale of Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties,
and one man's rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast's most successful
rum runner.
Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent
Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper
upbringing, and enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw.
But life on the dark side carries a heavy price, and one fate seems most likely
for men like Joe: an early death. Until that day, he and his friends are
determined to live life to the hilt.

Joe
embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him
from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin
Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live
by Night is a riveting epic
layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough
rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel
Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At
once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a
spellbinding tour de force that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was
cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

13. Mai 2013

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

416

Reihe

Joe Coughlin, 1

Autor/Autorin

Dennis Lehane

Verlag/Hersteller

HarperCollins US

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

198 g

Größe (L/B/H)

173/106/28 mm

Sonstiges

Mass Market Paperback

ISBN

9780062274106

Portrait

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.

Pressestimmen

"LIVE BY NIGHT is, first and foremost, a great story. But it is also proof positive that Lehane's 2008 novel, The Given Day, was no fluke-more than just a crime writer, Lehane is an author who works on a higher literary plane. . . . LIVE BY NIGHT is a morality tale in which, as one character notes, "No one's good, no one's bad." Except for the author, who once again shows just how good he is." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Lehane's novel carves its own unique place in the Prohibition landscape. . . . This is an utterly magnetic novel on every level, a reimagining of the great themes of popular fiction-crime, family, passion, betrayal-set against an exquisitely rendered historical backdrop." - Booklist (starred review)
"LIVE BY NIGHT belongs somewhere in a realm of Mario Puzo meets the Bible. It's a morality tale, but in keeping with the best of those, it's complex and layered and damnably entertaining, too." - New York Daily News
"LIVE BY NIGHT is Crime Noir 101, as taught by the best of its current practitioners. . . . Yet [Lehane's] idea of plain old crime is sophisticated, literary and barbed enough that it makes this book a sentence-by-sentence pleasure. You are in the hands of an expert. And you'll know it." - Janet Maslin, New York Times
"LIVE BY NIGHT is Crime Noir 101, as taught by the best of its current practitioners. . . . A sentence-by-sentence pleasure. You are in the hands of an expert. And you'll know it." - Janet Maslin, New York Times
"LIVE BY NIGHT transcends the familiar and assumes an unimpeachable reality of its own. . . . [A] meticulously crafted portrait of our violent national past." - Washington Post Book World
"Exquisitely plotted. . . . LIVE BY NIGHT is a masterful outing by an author known for superior storytelling." - South Florida Sun Sentinel
"Masterful. . . . Lehane has created a mature, quintessentially American story that will appeal to readers of literary and crime fiction alike." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Combining period detail from the Prohibition era with the depth of character and twists of plot that have won him such a devoted readership. . . . The novel builds to a powerful series of climaxes, following betrayal upon betrayal, which will satisfy Lehane's fans and deserves to extend his readership as well. Power, lust and moral ambiguity combine for an all-American explosion of fictional fireworks." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)