The Given Day
Author | : Dennis Lehane |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780061982286 |
ISBN-13 | : 0061982288 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "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.