Dennis Lehane
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born
August 04, 1966
gender
male
place of birth
Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
genre
Mystery & Thrillers
about this author
Dennis Lehane (born Aug 4th, 1966) is an American author. He has written several novels, including the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also called Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film). The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystere de la Critique.
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Mystic River by Dennis Lehane avg rating 4.07 — 4,602 ratings — published 2003 33 editions |
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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane avg rating 3.81 — 3,713 ratings — published 2003 37 editions |
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Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane avg rating 4.00 — 2,064 ratings — published 1998 27 editions |
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A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane avg rating 3.87 — 1,634 ratings — published 2003 12 editions |
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The Given Day: A Novel by Dennis Lehane avg rating 3.95 — 1,493 ratings — published 2006 18 editions |
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Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane avg rating 4.08 — 1,289 ratings — published 1996 13 editions |
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Prayers for Rain (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Novels) by Dennis Lehane avg rating 3.99 — 1,256 ratings — published 1999 24 editions |
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Sacred by Dennis Lehane avg rating 3.84 — 1,134 ratings — published 1997 15 editions |
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Coronado: Stories by Dennis Lehane avg rating 3.23 — 374 ratings — published 2006 9 editions |
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A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane avg rating 4.09 — 104 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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December 2008,
Dennis Lehane
"I never have a strong sense of my plots — I usually know something about what has to happen at the end...but beyond that I'm just throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks. If you work hard enough at this method, you get a real nice pasta dish, but you also spend a fair amount of time picking noodles off the floor and throwing them away." ...More
"I never have a strong sense of my plots — I usually know something about what has to happen at the end...but beyond that I'm just throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks. If you work hard enough at this method, you get a real nice pasta dish, but you also spend a fair amount of time picking noodles off the floor and throwing them away." ...More
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"You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies."
— Dennis Lehane
— Dennis Lehane
"She blew a stream of smoke up at the empty clotheslines. 'These silly dreams you have when you're young. I mean, what, Katie and Brendan Harris were going ot make a life in Las Vegas? How long would that little Eden have lasted? Maybe they'd be on their second trailer park, second kid, but it would have hit them sooner or later - life isn't happily ever after and golden sunsets and shit like that. It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But, shit, you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything -because that's what growing older is.'"
— Dennis Lehane (Mystic River)
— Dennis Lehane (Mystic River)
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| The Wire: Dennis Lehane on crime fiction and literature | 1 | 126 | Dec 03, 2008 01:13PM | |
| The Book Challenge: Sarah's 2008 Book Challenge v2.0 - Fini! | 5 | 281 | Dec 29, 2008 09:31AM | |
| Novel Ladies: What Are You Currently Reading? | 736 | 63 | Apr 30, 2009 02:52PM | |
| M/T Reading Friends: Dan's May | 24 | 61 | Jun 21, 2009 08:34PM | |
| Novel Ladies: I Just Finished...Do You Recommend It? | 936 | 80 | Jun 27, 2009 08:47AM | |
| Novel Ladies: What Are You Currently Reading In June? | 234 | 49 | Jun 27, 2009 08:54AM | |
| Novel Ladies: Cindy's Reading Log | 8 | 28 | Jul 01, 2009 05:54AM | |
| Novel Ladies: Jan's Reading Log - 2009 | 13 | 23 | Jul 11, 2009 07:05AM | |
| Novel Ladies: Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane | 13 | 22 | Jul 20, 2009 04:47AM |
