The Given Day

By Dennis Lehane

Release : 2009-10-06

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Hard-Boiled Mysteries, Historical Mysteries, Romance, Historical Romance

Kind : ebook

4.5 (0 ratings)
"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.

The Given Day

By Dennis Lehane

Release : 2009-10-06

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Hard-Boiled Mysteries, Historical Mysteries, Romance, Historical Romance

Kind : ebook

4.5 (0 ratings)
"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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