5/27/2023 0 Comments Lehane the given day![]() The Given Day is set during the run-up to the 1919 Boston police strike, at the height of the Bolshevik movement in the US. ![]() In the Kenzie and Gennaro series, like all good detective fiction, the city is as sharp and unpredictable as the villains themselves. The 43-year-old's Boston is a city at war with itself: in Mystic River, his most successful novel, an old working-class neighbourhood churns beneath gentrification. ![]() Lehane is from inner-city Boston and his accent comes out when he's drunk, angry or doing impressions of his younger self, most arrestingly during the interview in a scene from his school days, in which he repels the advances of a Jesuit priest. His heart, he says, is finally "exposed". "I feel like if this bombs, God: it's going to be my Heaven's Gate, my Waterworld." He cringes. For the last five years he has worked on a single book, The Given Day, an historical epic of 700 pages and of a scale of risk that has quite unmanned him. He is in any case built for rebuttal: stocky, forward-leaning, with a little shoulder pivot when he walks and a get-out-of-jail-free grin. ![]() ![]() B etween 19 Dennis Lehane wrote a novel a year and it gave him, he says, a "super-thick" skin. ![]()
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