- American Short stories, Fiction, Drama, Fiction, short stories (single author)
From Dennis Lehane, the award-winning author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and the Kenzie-Gennaro series, comes a striking collection of five short stories and a play.A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle. . . .A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger. . . .
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- warmbleak
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- Author
- Dennis Lehane
- First published
- August 8, 2006
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- William Morrow, W F Howes, Bantam Press
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- French, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9784151782510
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Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including *A Drink Before the War*. Four of his novels were adapted into award-wining films of the same names: *Mystic River* (2003), *Shutter Island* (2010), and *Gone Baby Gone* (2007) and *Live by Night* (2016). [*--Wikipedia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane)
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