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Given Day (Gebundene Ausgabe)

von Dennis Lehane (Autor)
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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 720 Seiten
  • Verlag: Doubleday (29. Januar 2009)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0385615345
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385615341
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24 x 15,6 x 5,2 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon.de Verkaufsrang: Nr. 339.185 in Englische Bücher (Die Bestseller Englische Bücher)

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From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. In a splendid flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction (Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River), Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by pride and the strictures of the Catholic Church, and the plot of a multifaceted thriller. Set in Boston during and after WWI, this engrossing epic brings alive a pivotal period in our cultural maturation through a pulsing narrative that exposes social turmoil, political chicanery and racial prejudice, and encompasses the Spanish flu pandemic, the Boston police strike of 1919 and red-baiting and anti-union violence.Danny Coughlin, son of police captain Thomas Coughlin, is a devoted young beat cop in Boston's teeming North End. Anxious to prove himself worthy of his legendary father, he agrees to go undercover to infiltrate the Bolsheviks and anarchists who are recruiting the city's poverty-stricken immigrants. He gradually finds himself sympathetic to those living in similar conditions to his fellow policemen, who earn wages well below the poverty line, work in filthy, rat-infested headquarters, are made to pay for their own uniforms and are not compensated for overtime. Danny also rebels by falling in love with the family's spunky Irish immigrant maid, a woman with a past. Danny's counterpart in alienation is Luther Laurence, a spirited black man first encountered in the prologue when Babe Ruth sees him playing softball in Ohio. After Luther kills a man in Tulsa, he flees to Boston, where he becomes intertwined with Danny's family. This story of fathers and sons, love and betrayal, idealism and injustice, prejudice and brotherly feeling is a dark vision of the brutality inherent in human nature and the dire fate of some who try to live by ethical standards. It's also a vision of redemption and a triumph of the human spirit. In short, this nail-biter carries serious moral gravity. (Sept.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains. His beat is the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End where political dissent is in the air - fresh and intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into the ideological fray and finds his loyalties compromised as the police department itself becomes swept up in potentially violent labour strife. Luther Lawrence is on the run. A suspect in a nightclub shooting in Oklahoma, he flees to Boston, leaving his wife behind. He lands a job in the Coughlin household and meets Danny and the family's Irish maid, Nora, who once had a powerful bond. As the mystery of their relationship unravels, Luther finds himself befriending them both even as the turmoil in his own life threatens to overwhelm him. Desperate to return to his wife and child, he must confront the past that has followed him and settle scores with enemies old and new. Set at the end of the Great War, The Given Day is meticulously researched and expertly plotted, it will transport you to an unforgettable time and place.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Bewegend, 8. April 2009
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Kenzie und Gennaro sind im Ruhestand. Bubba wird von mir schmerzlich vermisst. So sehr mir die ersten Bücher von Dennis Lehane gefallen haben, seit "Mystic River" ist klar, dass sich ein wirklich grosser Schriftsteller etabliert. Wie der Kritiker von der "Washington Post" bin auch ich der Meinung, dass sich Lehane diesmal auf gefährliches Terrain begeben hat. Von Rassismus über Sozialkritik, Familiendrama bis hin zu emotionalen Liebesgeschichten war in diesem Buch alles vorhanden. Dazu der Einbau geschichtlicher Ereignisse wie der Grippeepidemie und des Polizeistreiks und Personen der Zeitgeschichte wie Babe Ruth und den pädophilen Bürgermeister von Boston. So etwas geht gern schief. In diesem Fall war jedoch alles so gewissenhaft recherchiert und war vor allem die erzählte Geschichte über die gesamten 700 Seiten so interessant, dass ich mit voller Überzeugung sagen kann : Das beste Buch , das ich seit Jahren gelesen habe !
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5.0 von 5 Sternen A Wise Historical Novel That Comments on Today through the Lens of Yesterday, 3. Dezember 2008
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The Given Day is by far the best novel I've read that was published in 2008. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in having a keener understanding of human nature and what our priorities should be. Those who aspire to write great fiction will learn a lot by examining the plot, characterizations, story telling, and mixture of history and fiction in the book. I was formerly convinced that E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime was the best historical novel about the early part of the twentieth century in America. Having read The Given Day, I have to move Ragtime down to number two.

I have not read any of Dennis Lehane's other books so I cannot offer comparisons. I stumbled onto this one when a good friend who knows my taste in fiction recommended that I not miss The Given Day. I'm glad she persuaded me.

Normally, I'm not overjoyed to read a 700 page novel, wishing that a good editor had chopped things down to size. The Given Day is chopped down to size . . . it's just the right size for the story it tells.

There's enough material in this book for eight novels, but Mr. Lehane has brilliantly combined his powerful tale into just one double-length one. I admire that accomplishment very much.

To me, the best part of the book was Mr. Lehane's understanding that America in 1916-1919 was a lot like America in 2001-2008. By showing us a mirror of our past, we can see ourselves more clearly in the present:

--We have international terrorists who like to blow things up with plastic explosive. They had anarchists who like to dynamite symbols of authority.

--They had the influenza that killed millions. We have AIDS that kills tens of millions.

--We had runaway inflation until a few months ago that made most people poorer. They had runaway inflation that left most people below the poverty line.

--They had racism that denied opportunity to African-Americans who didn't organization. We have racism that an African-American was able to overcome by organization to become president-elect.

--Their baseball players had no security. Our baseball players who don't have a long-term contract have no security.

--Their civil servants couldn't strike. Our civil servants often cannot strike.

--Their labor movements were weak. Our labor movements are weak.

--Their politicians used public fears for personal advantage. Our politicians have done the same.

--Their immigrants disliked the newer immigrants. Our immigrants dislike the newer immigrants.

And on and on the comparisons go.

The plot is stunning in the way that Mr. Lehane is able to intertwine three characters to make his points about America in those days: Gidge "Babe" Ruth of the Boston Red Sox, Boston policeman Aiden "Danny" Coughlin, and Luther Laurence, a African-American man who would have played professional baseball if he had lived in the latter part of the 20th century or the 21st. The opening sequence involving Ruth and Lawrence is one of the inventive and interesting openings to a historical novel that I have ever read.

What's it all about? More than anything else this is a historical novel about the Boston Police Strike, an event that people still speak about in hushed tones in our fair city. With few nonstriking police and no immediately military help, Boston became a lawless and dangerous town for two days. After that, it was still touch and go in restoring order. You probably wouldn't want to read a novel about that, and Mr. Lehane has brilliantly given you a novel that also shows what it meant to be Irish in Boston, deal with the deadly influenza epidemic, track down anarchists and subversives, break strikes, form labor unions, earn a living under tough conditions, be mistreated by calculating politicians, and search for the meaning of life.

At the ultimate level, The Given Days asks the question of what our priorities should be in life . . . and the answer is to love others and to cherish our families. If there had been a Biblical element in the story, it would have been easy to see this novel as a Christian allegory with Babe Ruth as Barabbas, Danny Coughlin as John the Baptist, and Luther Lawrence as the Apostle Paul. Perhaps those references were intended to be seen by readers outside the context of religious institutions. I leave it to you to decide for yourselves on that point.

But do read this book. You'll be glad you did. It's a surprisingly fast read for a 700 page novel.
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5.0 von 5 Sternen Sehr spannend!, 28. August 2009
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Meine Kopie des Buches kam leider leicht beschädigt an, deshalb muss ich Amazon an dieser Stelle etwas rüffeln aber das Buch selbst ist Unterhaltung vom Feinsten. Kaum aufgeschlagen, konnte ich das Werk nicht mehr aus der Hand legen und in wenigen Tagen waren die ungefähr 700 Seiten gelesen.
Einziger Kritikpunkt meinerseits ist, dass der Leser den inneren Wandel eines der Protagonisten, der zu besagtem Streik führte, nicht so recht nachvollziehen kann. An dieser Stelle hat mir eine genauere Beschreibung der inneren Prozesse gefehlt.
Das ist allerdings nur eine Nebensächlichkeit, alles in allem ist es ein ungemein packendes Buch.
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