Dennis Lehane






Dennis Lehane

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born
August 04, 1966

gender
male

place of birth
Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

genre
Mystery & Thrillers


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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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avg rating: 3.94 | 19,370 ratings | 2,811 reviews | 27 distinct works | 124 fans
Mystic River Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
avg rating 4.07 — 4,602 ratings — published 2003
33 editions
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Shutter Island Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
avg rating 3.81 — 3,713 ratings — published 2003
37 editions
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Gone, Baby, Gone 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 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 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 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 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 Sacred
by Dennis Lehane
avg rating 3.84 — 1,134 ratings — published 1997
15 editions
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Coronado: Stories Coronado: Stories
by Dennis Lehane
avg rating 3.23 — 374 ratings — published 2006
9 editions
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A Drink Before the War/Darknes... 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

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"You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies."
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"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)
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"What molds us is what maims us."
Dennis Lehane (The Given Day: A Novel)
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