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by: Dennis Lehane  List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.25 You Save: $0.70 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780060584757 Edition: First Edition ISBN: 0060584750 Label: Harper Paperbacks Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: August 01, 2003 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Release Date: July 22, 2003 Studio: Harper Paperbacks Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Ever since blasting onto the literary scene with the Shamus Award-winning A Drink Before the War, Dennis Lehane has been the golden boy of noir. His Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro novels are marvels of tight pacing, dialogue so good it gets under your skin and stays there, with dead-on portrayals of working-class Boston neighborhoods. Sure, he's the oft-proclaimed, hard-boiled heir to Hammett and Chandler, but Lehane also takes a page from the Hemingway school of hyper-intense writing. He pares away and pares away until he's left with the absolute essentials--and then those essentials just explode off the page. In his five Kenzie-Gennaro novels, the detective duo is at the nexus of Lehane's big bang. Darkly funny and just this side of jaded, Angie and Patrick move through Dorchester's bleak streets with an assurance born of familiarity. It's impossible to imagine these streets without the pair, or to imagine the pair away from those streets. Mystic River, then, arrives as a bit of a gamble, as Lehane moves from the sharp edges of portraiture to the broader strokes of landscape. No Angie, no Patrick: this neighborhood is on its own. It's not any prettier and certainly no friendlier, and its working-class façade still barely masks the irresistible tug of violent ways, means, and ends. Twenty-five years ago, Dave Boyle got into a car. When he came back four days later, he was different in a way that destroyed his friendship with Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus. Now Sean's a cop, Jimmy's a store owner with a prison record and mob connections, and Dave's trying hard to keep his demons safely submerged. When Jimmy's daughter Katie is found murdered, each of the men must confront a past that none is eager to acknowledge. Lehane tugs delicately on the strands that weave this neighborhood together, testing for their strengths and weaknesses; this novel seems as much anthropological case study as thriller. By turns violent and pensive, Mystic River is vintage Lehane. How good is it? You may go in missing Angie and Patrick, but after a few pages you won't even realize they're gone. Lehane's noir is still black magic. --Kelly Flynn Product Description: When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood. A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A great character-driven story Lehane's story writing abilities and dialog were brilliant. The characters realistic with depth and complexity. You feel like you know them, you experience their pain, know their motivations as well as their flaws and choices. This is a well written mystery but not a thriller. There were surprises, twists and turns but not real gripping suspense where you was concerned about what was going to happen on the next page. The writing is tight without a lot of unnecessary padding like so many ... Read More Rating: - Very Deep Character StudyThe book presents us with three intriguing friends. Sean, Jimmy and Dave. Sean is the one with everything. Jimmy is the rough one and Dave is the "wierd" one who tags along with Jimmy and Sean. One day Dave is kidnapped by two strange men but a few days later Dave somehow escapes and comes back changed forever. Twenty years later the three are reunited when Jimmy's daughter is murdered, Sean is the investigating detective and Dave is just acting very "wierd." The book is a little bit ... Read More Rating: - Dark and DepressingThis is the first book by Dennis Lehane that I've ever read. I heard about the film adaptation of "Mystic River" and I decided to read the novel. The story is dark, gloomy, and almost operatic. Its general humorlessness may put some people off, but I don't mind the depressing atmosphere. Plot twists are aplenty, and tension is high. This was a fantastic read, and I'm sure the film adapation is as good as this. A- Rating: - When the past and present collide ..Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus knew each other because their fathers worked together. Dave Boyle used to play with them sometimes. One day the three boys were in the street when a strange car pulled up. One boy got into the car, the other two didn't. Each of their lives changed on that day. Twenty five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-convict who owns a corner store, and Dave Boyle is struggling with the demons of the past. Jimmy's daughter is found ... Read More Rating: - MYSTIC RIVERSean is the most level headed of the three friends. Jimmy is the bold and daring leader, the bad influence. Dave is happy just to be a part of the threesome, never quite feeling like he is worthy of their friendship and continuously strategizing to keep his place among the trio. They are all eleven years old. One day two men posing as police stop the three boys from fighting in the street. It is no surprise that Dave is the one ultimately lured into their car. This incident had me thinking... ... Read More 
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