The Given Day: A Novel

Name: The Given Day: A Novel
Rating: 4.599999904632568 (10 reviews)

Dennis Lehane

Oct 2009 · Joe Coughlin Series Book 1 · Sold by Harper Collins

4.6

10 reviews

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720

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"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York Times

Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history 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.

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4.6

10 reviews

Johanna Russell

October 31, 2024

Decent sized book but I read it twice! Wish I could see Luther Laurence in a movie or even on a show! Amazing read as usual from this Author!

A Google user

July 9, 2017

Loved the book I felt like I was there!!!

Paul Demetre

July 27, 2020

A good novel about a turbulent time.

About the author

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.

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