Dennis Lehane
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in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
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January 2013
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Shutter Island
— published 2003 — 89 editions |
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Mystic River
— published 2001 — 70 editions |
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A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
— published 1994 — 39 editions |
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Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
— published 1998 — 54 editions |
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Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
— published 1996 — 36 editions |
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The Given Day
— published 2008 — 44 editions |
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Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)
— published 1999 — 48 editions |
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Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro,#6)
— published 2010 — 31 editions |
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Sacred (Kenzie & Gennaro, #3)
— published 1997 — 36 editions |
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Live by Night
— published 2012 — 19 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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“Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”
― Dennis Lehane
― Dennis Lehane
“And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”
― Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
― Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
“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 | 362 | Dec 03, 2008 01:13pm | |
| The Book Challenge: Sarah's 2008 Book Challenge v2.0 - Fini! | 5 | 755 | Dec 29, 2008 09:31am | |
| M/T Reading Friends: Dan's May | 24 | 67 | Jun 21, 2009 08:34pm |



























