Verlag | HarperCollins UK |
Auflage | 2009 |
Seiten | 720 |
Format | 18 cm |
Gewicht | 346 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0061804304 |
EAN | 9780061804304 |
Bestell-Nr | 06180430EA |
Im Jahr 1918, in den Wirren von Revolution und Krieg, Armut und Rassenhass, überleben zwei Männer nur knapp einen Anschlag: Danny Coughlin, Sohn einer angesehenen Bostoner Familie, und Luther Laurence, ein junger Schwarzer. Sie werden Freunde, und plötzlich sieht Danny die himmelschreienden Ungerechtigkeiten seiner Zeit. Dennis Lehane zeichnet das epische Porträt einer kriegserschütterten Gesellschaft und einer großen, außergewöhnlichen Freundschaft.
Klappentext:
"Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."-New York TimesNow available with a contemporary look, a beautifully written novel of American history, set at the end of the Great War; an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation dangling between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future from acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Dennis LehaneDennis Lehane's beautifully written novel 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. Coursing through the pivotal events of a turbulent epoch, it explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself.
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"Heartfelt and moving. . . . Lehane deserves to be included among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category." Washington Post Book World