Avant Gwen

by Dennis Lehane

51 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the 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.

Reviews

[Athena]

Lehane is great at crime drama. Despite that most of his characters are seedy low-lifes you can't help but sympathize with one of them.
In this story "Bobby" is released from prison after three years. His dad picks him up in what you think is a father maybe happy to see his son, helping him out by being there for him, or whatnot. But it's not like that at all in this story.