The Story
"Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."--New York Times
Now
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 Lehane
Dennis
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.
Author: Dennis Lehane
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 05/25/2021
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780063083745
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 32
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 126809 / Given Day
About the Author
Lehane, Dennis: -
Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels--including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day--as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.
Description
"Gut-wrenching. . . . A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Dayis a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive."--New York Times
Now
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 Lehane
Dennis
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.
Author: Dennis Lehane
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 05/25/2021
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780063083745
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 32
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 126809 / Given Day
About the Author
Lehane, Dennis: -
Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels--including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day--as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.
