The Given Day
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Im Jahr 1918, in den Wirren von Revolution und Krieg, Armut und Rassenhass, überleben zwei Männer nur knapp einen Anschlag: Danny Coughlin, Sohn einer angesehenen Bostoner Familie, und Luther Laurence, ein junger Schwarzer. Sie werden Freunde, und plötzlich...
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Im Jahr 1918, in den Wirren von Revolution und Krieg, Armut und Rassenhass, überleben zwei Männer nur knapp einen Anschlag: Danny Coughlin, Sohn einer angesehenen Bostoner Familie, und Luther Laurence, ein junger Schwarzer. Sie werden Freunde, und plötzlich sieht Danny die himmelschreienden Ungerechtigkeiten seiner Zeit. Dennis Lehane zeichnet das epische Porträt einer kriegserschütterten Gesellschaft und einer großen, außergewöhnlichen Freundschaft.
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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 way home to his pregnant wife.Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era?Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover.
Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time?including the Spanish Influenza pandemic?and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.
Autoren-Porträt von 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Dennis Lehane
- 2009, 720 Seiten, Maße: 17,1 x 10,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-10: 0061804304
- ISBN-13: 9780061804304
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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ôPassionate and powerful. . . . That prologue is as fine a piece of writing as you are liable to come across this year, or maybe the next several, and it is also a great curtain-raiser for the latest work from a writer who is becoming, book by book, the foremost chronicler of social class in America. . . . How you talk, where you live, whether you rent or own your home, whom you vote for, where (and if) you work, how much money you have in the bankùthese are the things that fill up a soul, Lehane suggests. These are the elements that shape a destiny. Not just the color of your skin. Few contemporary American writers understand this the way Lehane does. Race, in many ways, has blinded us to the even stricter imperatives of class. . . . Lehane is trying to get his arms around the origins of modern America, the divide between red states and blue states, the great cultural cleaver that splits the country right down the middle. . . . THE GIVEN DAY is a massive, ambitious novel.ö (Chicago Tribune)
Pressezitat
"Heartfelt and moving. . . . Lehane deserves to be included among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category." - Washington Post Book World"This may be Lehane's finest work. . . . But The Given Day is more than a history lesson. . . . Lehane captures the essence of being American in a fast-changing society that eerily reflects our own." - USA Today
"The Given Day is a vast historical novel. . . . Spectacular details. . . . Finely thought-out. . . . . Many stunningly managed scenes." - Boston Globe
"Steeped in history but wearing its research lightly, The Given Day is a meaty, rich, old-fashioned and satisfying tale. I'd call it Lehane's masterpiece." - Seattle Times
"Superbly written, meticulously researched. . . . A thoughtful, provocative exploration of race, fame, power, and political corruption in American culture. . . . The Given Day places [Lehane] in the first rank of modern American novelists." - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"Gut-wrenching force. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. . . . The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - New York Times
"[A] work of admirable ambition and scope. . . . Lehane is as much like contemporaries George Pelecanos and Richard Price as he is like the bygone Boston-based John P. Marquand, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist." - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"One of the fall's biggest books-and not just because it's 704 pages. It's Lehane's most ambitious and literary work." - USA Today
"A splendid flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction. . . . A vision of redemption and a triumph of the human spirit. In short, this nail-biter carries serious moral gravity." -
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Brilliantly constructed. . . . Like E. L. Doctorow in Ragtime, Lehane captures the sense of a country coming of age, vividly dramatizing how the conflicting emotions and tortured dreams that drive individual human lives also send a nation roiling forward." - Booklist (starred review)
"Lehane's first historical novel is a clear winner. . . . As good as it gets." - Library Journal (starred review)
"A historical epic that is easily the most ambitious work of Dennis Lehane's career. . . . THE GIVEN DAY aspires to be nothing less than the Great American Novel. . . . If Lehane was ever a singles hitter, now he's swinging for the fences." - Kirkus Reviews
"The problem falls to readers to find something-anything-that doesn't pale in comparison once they've closed the covers on this 720-page masterpiece. Quite simply, THE GIVEN DAY is about as close to the great American novel as we're likely to read until ... well, until Lehane writes another." - BookPage
"If you're swinging for the fences, it only makes sense that your novel begin with a lengthy, and very tasty, story about Babe Ruth. That Dennis Lehane sustains that level of play . . . is what gives THE GIVEN DAY a kind of greatness. . . . Lehane dazzles." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Here's one way to get people excited about the nation's past: Get Dennis Lehane to write the history books. . . . A meticulously researched tale that in the hands of this master storyteller jumps right off the page and hollers." - St. Petersburg Times
"As much a thriller as any of Lehane's previous work. Even beyond the historical events, THE GIVEN DAY qualifies as a sprawling, sweeping epic. . . . Lehane's masterful packing and precise prose make the story speed by." - Orlando Sentinel
"Packed with dramatic turning points. . . . Lehane has tried to capture the zeitgeist of an era even nuttier and more tumultuous than our own, and succeeded."" - Entertainment Weekly
"A gripping historical novel. . . . Infused with the same dark drama that set apart his earlier books." - Parade
"Rollicking, brawling, gritty, political, and always completely absorbing, THE GIVEN DAY is a rich and satisfying epic. Readers, get ready to feast. This is a big book you won't want to put down." - Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster, A Prayer for the Dying, and Snow Angels
"A brawling, brawny, muscular epic-exactly what great mainstream novels used to be." - Lee Child
"Brilliantly constructed. . . . Like E. L. Doctorow in Ragtime, Lehane captures the sense of a country coming of age, vividly dramatizing how the conflicting emotions and tortured dreams that drive individual human lives also send a nation roiling forward." - Booklist (starred review)
"Lehane's first historical novel is a clear winner. . . . As good as it gets." - Library Journal (starred review)
"A historical epic that is easily the most ambitious work of Dennis Lehane's career. . . . THE GIVEN DAY aspires to be nothing less than the Great American Novel. . . . If Lehane was ever a singles hitter, now he's swinging for the fences." - Kirkus Reviews
"The problem falls to readers to find something-anything-that doesn't pale in comparison once they've closed the covers on this 720-page masterpiece. Quite simply, THE GIVEN DAY is about as close to the great American novel as we're likely to read until ... well, until Lehane writes another." - BookPage
"If you're swinging for the fences, it only makes sense that your novel begin with a lengthy, and very tasty, story about Babe Ruth. That Dennis Lehane sustains that level of play . . . is what gives THE GIVEN DAY a kind of greatness. . . . Lehane dazzles." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Here's one way to get people excited about the nation's past: Get Dennis Lehane to write the history books. . . . A meticulously researched tale that in the hands of this master storyteller jumps right off the page and hollers." - St. Petersburg Times
"As much a thriller as any of Lehane's previous work. Even beyond the historical events, THE GIVEN DAY qualifies as a sprawling, sweeping epic. . . . Lehane's masterful packing and precise prose make the story speed by." - Orlando Sentinel
"Packed with dramatic turning points. . . . Lehane has tried to capture the zeitgeist of an era even nuttier and more tumultuous than our own, and succeeded."" - Entertainment Weekly
"A gripping historical novel. . . . Infused with the same dark drama that set apart his earlier books." - Parade
"Rollicking, brawling, gritty, political, and always completely absorbing, THE GIVEN DAY is a rich and satisfying epic. Readers, get ready to feast. This is a big book you won't want to put down." - Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster, A Prayer for the Dying, and Snow Angels
"A brawling, brawny, muscular epic-exactly what great mainstream novels used to be." - Lee Child
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