LoveReading Says
A big novel in every way, packed with action, in a time of huge social upheaval, for this is Boston 1918-1919. With strikes, poverty, racism, corruption, anarchist bombs, riots on the streets and the arrival of the world flu pandemic, the book builds to the most violent part of a violent book, the police strike. It’s terrific.
Comparison: R J Ellory, Nelson DeMille, Mario Puzo.
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The Given Day Synopsis
"Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."--New York Times
Now available with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane's beautifully written novel 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. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, it explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780063083745 |
| Publication date: |
25th May 2021 |
| Author: |
Dennis Lehane |
| Publisher: |
William Morrow & Company an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
720 pages |
| Series: |
Joe Coughlin |
| Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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