Mystic River - Softcover

Lehane, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380731851 ISBN 13: 9780380731855

Publisher: Harper Torch, 2002

Synopsis

Sean Devine must confront the world of violence and pain he tried to forget when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered, and the investigation brings him face-to-face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret. Reissue. (A Warner Bros. film, directed by Clint Eastwood, releasing October 2003, starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, & Laura Linney) (Suspense)

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Review:

Dennis Lehane's Mystic River takes the material of the ordinary police procedural thriller and shapes it into heart-break. As boys, Jimmy, Dave and Sean were friends, until one day Dave was abducted by two men pretending to be cops, and was never quite the same again. As men, Dave is a damaged fantasist, safe in a quietly happy marriage; Jimmy a retired criminal making a good respectable living for the sake of his children; and Sean is the homicide cop who finds himself investigating the murder of Jimmy's eldest daughter Katie. This is not just a book about what becomes of the children who grow into adults; it is about what happens to a neighbourhood when the rules change, when an old established working-class district acquires gentrified espresso bars at one end and the beats of the city's most dangerous whores at the other. It is also a book about the tragedy of all sudden violent deaths; we never forget our sense of Katie as she was, dancing on the last night of her life--she is never just the corpse here, never just the object of mourning and investigation. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"Get Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. Boy, does he know how to write" (Elmore Leonard)

"Enormously impressive: page-turning but thoughtful; moving in its sad inevitability... One of the finest novels I've read in ages" (Peter Guttridge Observer)

"Heart-scorching... penetrating... a powerhouse of a novel" (The New York Times Book Review)

"One of the greats of crime writing" (Guardian)

"Lehane's best book by far. Like all his writing, it shimmers with great dialogue and a complex view of the world" (Newsweek)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Torch
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0380731851
• ISBN 13: 9780380731855
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 478