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"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.
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The given day, Dennis Lehane
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- The given day
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dennis Lehane
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 720
- ISBN10
- 0061804304
- ISBN13
- 9780061804304
- Series
- Coughlin
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Politics, Friendship, USA, America, Race, Racism, Police, Baseball, Immigrants, Boston, Spanish Flu
- Original title
- The given day
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- "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.