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Dennis Lehane's gripping, moving Mystic River blurs the line between genres; at times you can't be sure if you're reading "literature" or "crime fiction." With characters this rich and a setting so vivid that you can feel yourself inhabit it, one assumes it must be "literature" with a capital L. But the plot moves so quickly and assuredly, hauling you to the last page with a single, powerful thrust, that it simply must be crime fiction. In fact, it's the perfect hybrid: a brilliantly told story with an irresistible narrative and a captivating human core. Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com

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When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened — something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.

Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay — demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.

A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.

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"Mystic River is the novel most writers can only dream of writing. Both a thrilling suspense story and a compassionate study of the human heart, it also manages to be funny, heartbreaking and pensive. And Dennis Lehane accomplishes all this in prose so dazzling in its deceptive simplicity that readers will find something to appreciate on almost every page." Cleveland Plain Dealer

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"A powerhouse of a...novel...heart-scorching...penetrating....[Lehane's] deeply scored characterizations of the three former friends carries the soul of this story...if you really want to know when innocence dies, just look these people in the eye." The New York Times Book Review

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"Lehane weaves such a spellbinding tale that it's easy to overlook the ramshackle mystery behind it all. An undisciplined but powerfully lacerating story, by an author who knows every block of the neighborhood and every hair on his characters' heads." Kirkus Reviews

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"Heartbreaking....Like Bruce Springsteen's song 'The River,' Lehane's Mystic River looks back at what might have been, the ways in which the past impinges on the present. And like the song, you can't get it out of your head." Orlando Sentinel

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"This popular writer just keeps getting better and better, and this sharp, intelligent, suspenseful novel is sure to win him a lot of new fans....It's time to stop talking about Lehane as an up-and-coming genre star and acknowledge that he is one of our best fiction writers period." David Pitt, Booklist

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Lehane once again proves himself nonpareil in writing about the dark side of the human character....What separates Lehane's work from standard noir fare is his ability to endow his characters with such complexity that the reader may understand their actions, even while not necessarily agreeing with them. He has crafted another winner this time around..." Library Journal

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"In many important ways, this is Lehane's best book. It possesses a sustained sense of urgency...and is a huge step up in its subject matter." Randy Michael Signor, Book Magazine

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"Dennis Lehane might be the best mystery writer we have in this country today." Boston Magazine

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"Stylish...Mystic River is Lehane's best book...it shimmers with great dialogue and a complex view of the world." Newsweek

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"Dennis Lehane is one of the very best young mystery writers." Esquire

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"In Mystic River Lehane aims for the plain-spoken lyricism of a good acoustic Bruce Springsteen ballad or the knife-edge clarity of an earlier transcendent novelist, Ross McDonald, and achieves his desired effect. (Grade: A)" Entertainment Weekly

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"Combining the tension of a thriller with the dramatic inevitability of Greek tragedy, Mystic River ranks as a high water mark for an author who is navigating his way to literary stardom." People

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"Get Dennis Lehane's Mystic River. Boy does he know how to write." Elmore Leonard

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"Dennis Lehane is the heir apparent...his voice is an original." Michael Connelly
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About the Author

Dennis Lehane is the author of Shutter Island; Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone; Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; and A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he lives in the Boston area.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060584757
Subtitle:
Author:
Lehane, Dennis
Author:
by Dennis Lehane
Author:
Lehane, Dennis
Publisher:
Harper Paperbacks
Location:
New York, NY
Subject:
Police
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Psychological
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Boston
Subject:
Male friendship
Subject:
Movie-TV Tie-In - General
Copyright:
2003
Edition Number:
1st Dark Alley ed.
Edition Description:
Dark Alley
Series Volume:
108-251
Publication Date:
July 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
8.04x5.32x.97 in. .69 lbs.
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