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The Given Day de Dennis Lehane

The Given Day

Autor Dennis Lehane
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 feb 2010

Tradusă din limba engleză, opera lui Dennis Lehane își păstrează în The Given Day forța brută a limbajului original, reușind să evoce o epocă în care America își căuta identitatea printre ruinele Primului Război Mondial. Găsim în această carte un efort monumental de reconstrucție istorică, unde Bostonul anului 1919 nu este doar un decor, ci un organism viu, măcinat de conflicte rasiale, ascensiunea anarhismului și tensiuni sindicale. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în capacitatea autorului de a ancora destine individuale — cel al unui polițist alb și cel al unui tânăr de culoare aflat în fugă — în vârtejul unor evenimente care au schimbat cursul istoriei americane. Spre deosebire de ritmul alert din Prayers For Rain sau tensiunea psihologică domestică din Since We Fell, The Given Day adoptă o cadență epică, așezată, oferind cititorului răgazul de a simți greutatea fiecărei decizii morale. Ca și The Cold Millions de Jess Walter, acest roman explorează puterea mișcărilor sociale și lupta pentru demnitate a clasei muncitoare, însă Dennis Lehane aduce o notă specifică de realism visceral și o complexitate a legăturilor de familie care depășește sfera politicului. Dacă în Live by Night autorul se concentrează pe ascensiunea unui gangster în perioada prohibiției, aici suntem martorii semințelor acelui haos, într-un moment de vulnerabilitate națională maximă. Este o narațiune despre supraviețuire și putere, scrisă cu o rigoare documentară care transformă ficțiunea într-o mărturie vie despre o lume care se prăbușește pentru a lăsa loc alteia.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780552775588
ISBN-10: 0552775584
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută profunzime în ficțiunea istorică și care apreciază romanele de mare întindere, unde contextul social este la fel de important ca personajele. The Given Day oferă o înțelegere nuanțată a rădăcinilor conflictelor moderne, fiind un câștig pentru oricine dorește să exploreze istoria americană prin prisma unei proze dense, evocatoare, care nu evită violența sau dilemele etice fundamentale ale condiției umane.

Despre autor

Dennis Lehane, născut în 1965, este unul dintre cei mai apreciați scriitori americani contemporani, renumit pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina literatura de gen cu teme sociale profunde. Cariera sa a început cu o serie de romane polițiste de succes, însă recunoașterea globală a venit odată cu publicarea unor titluri precum Mystic River și Shutter Island, ambele devenind filme de referință în regia lui Clint Eastwood, respectiv Martin Scorsese. Stilul său se caracterizează printr-o atenție meticuloasă la detalii și o explorare neînfricată a moralității umane, elemente care l-au consacrat ca o voce esențială în literatura americană actuală.

Notă biografică

Dennis Lehane grew up in the Dorchester section of Boston's inner-city.
Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a counsellor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. His one regret is that no one ever gave him a chance to tend bar.

He has an MFA from Florida International University, and is the writer-in-residence at Eckerd College in St Petersburg, Florida, where he runs the Writers in Paradise Writers' Conference.
He and his wife divide their time between St. Petersburg and Boston.

For more information on Dennis Lehane and his novels, visit his website: www.dennislehanebooks.com

Descriere

But Danny soon finds his ideals compromised as, drawn into the conflict, his family starts to question where his loyalties really lie. As the city goes into meltdown, Danny and Luther must confront the storm of violence that threatens to engulf them if each is to survive...

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day 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. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife.
Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era—Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover.
Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time—including the Spanish Influenza pandemic—and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.

Recenzii

“Heartfelt and moving. . . . Lehane deserves to be included among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category.” — Washington Post Book World
“This may be Lehane’s finest work. . . . But The Given Day is more than a history lesson. . . . Lehane captures the essence of being American in a fast-changing society that eerily reflects our own.” — USA Today
“The Given Day is a vast historical novel. . . . Spectacular details. . . . Finely thought-out. . . . . Many stunningly managed scenes.” — Boston Globe
“Steeped in history but wearing its research lightly, The Given Day is a meaty, rich, old-fashioned and satisfying tale. I’d call it Lehane’s masterpiece.” — Seattle Times
“Superbly written, meticulously researched. . . . A thoughtful, provocative exploration of race, fame, power, and political corruption in American culture. . . . The Given Day places [Lehane] in the first rank of modern American novelists.” — Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
“Gut-wrenching force. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. . . . The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive.” — New York Times
“[A] work of admirable ambition and scope. . . . Lehane is as much like contemporaries George Pelecanos and Richard Price as he is like the bygone Boston-based John P. Marquand, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“One of the fall’s biggest books—and not just because it’s 704 pages. It’s Lehane’s most ambitious and literary work.” — USA Today
“A splendid flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction. . . . A vision of redemption and a triumph of the human spirit. In short, this nail-biter carries serious moral gravity.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Brilliantly constructed. . . . Like E. L. Doctorow in Ragtime, Lehane captures the sense of a country coming of age, vividly dramatizing how the conflicting emotions and tortured dreams that drive individual human lives also send a nation roiling forward.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Lehane’s first historical novel is a clear winner. . . . As good as it gets.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“A historical epic that is easily the most ambitious work of Dennis Lehane’s career. . . . THE GIVEN DAY aspires to be nothing less than the Great American Novel. . . . If Lehane was ever a singles hitter, now he’s swinging for the fences.” — Kirkus Reviews
“The problem falls to readers to find something—anything—that doesn’t pale in comparison once they’ve closed the covers on this 720-page masterpiece. Quite simply, THE GIVEN DAY is about as close to the great American novel as we’re likely to read until … well, until Lehane writes another.” — BookPage
“If you’re swinging for the fences, it only makes sense that your novel begin with a lengthy, and very tasty, story about Babe Ruth. That Dennis Lehane sustains that level of play . . . is what gives THE GIVEN DAY a kind of greatness. . . . Lehane dazzles.” — Chicago Sun-Times
“Here’s one way to get people excited about the nation’s past: Get Dennis Lehane to write the history books. . . . A meticulously researched tale that in the hands of this master storyteller jumps right off the page and hollers.” — St. Petersburg Times
“As much a thriller as any of Lehane’s previous work. Even beyond the historical events, THE GIVEN DAY qualifies as a sprawling, sweeping epic. . . . Lehane’s masterful packing and precise prose make the story speed by.” — Orlando Sentinel
“Packed with dramatic turning points. . . . Lehane has tried to capture the zeitgeist of an era even nuttier and more tumultuous than our own, and succeeded.”” — Entertainment Weekly
“A gripping historical novel. . . . Infused with the same dark drama that set apart his earlier books.” — Parade
“Rollicking, brawling, gritty, political, and always completely absorbing, THE GIVEN DAY is a rich and satisfying epic. Readers, get ready to feast. This is a big book you won’t want to put down.” — Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster, A Prayer for the Dying, and Snow Angels
“A brawling, brawny, muscular epic—exactly what great mainstream novels used to be.” — Lee Child