內容簡介
在波士頓的設定結束的第一次世界大戰期間,《紐約時報》的暢銷書作家的小說丹尼斯Lehane捕獲了期待已久的第八unflinchingly政治和社會動亂的國家的交叉點上了過去和未來。充滿了令人難忘的人物的演員陣容更為豐富的畫比任何Lehane曾經創造,給定一天講述的故事是關於兩個families-one黑,一white-swept在一個漩渦的革命者和無政府主義者,移民和病房的老闆,婆羅門和普通公民,所有從事為生存而戰和力量。丹尼讓打警察的兒子市內的一個最受人愛戴、強大的警察隊長,加入一個新興的工會和尋找暴力激進分子。海德勞倫斯,在追一個致命的老闆對抗犯罪塔爾,工作的家庭並試圖讓拚命尋找回家的路上,他懷孕的妻子。
在這裡,也有一些最有影響力的人物era-Babe露絲,尤金·奧尼爾,里德左翼激進分子,即創始人b .全國有色人種協進會只不過是個淘氣鬼,米切爾帕,伍德羅·威爾遜的無情的Red-chasing法務部長,狡猾的麻薩諸塞州州長卡爾文·柯立芝;一個野心勃勃的年輕法務部的律師名叫約翰·胡佛(總統)。
電流通過一些關鍵事件的西班牙流感pandemic-and time-including最後在1919年的波士頓警察罷工,指定日期日益暴力和不可阻擋的探索一個國家繁榮的戰爭,在薩爾的,本身。作為丹尼,海德和他們周圍的人來定義自己的鬥爭日益動盪的年代,他們漸漸發現家庭在彼此,一起,騎一個崛起的風暴的艱辛、剝奪,希望能改變他們的生活。
原文
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.
作者簡介
丹尼斯的作者是Lehane七小說。包括《紐約時報》的暢銷書不見了,寶貝,一去不復返;神秘的河;和快門島,以及科洛一部短篇故事和一個劇本。他和他的妻子,視角,把他們的時間在波士頓與墨西哥灣沿岸的佛羅里達。
原文
Dennis Lehane is the author of seven novels. These include the New York Times bestsellers Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; and Shutter Island, as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He and his wife, Angie, divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida.
媒體評論
"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
