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The given day, Dennis Lehane

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The given day

Dennis Lehane

Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.2, 32.0, 126809.Accelerated Reader, Grades 9-12, 5.2, 32, SD, Quiz 126809, English fiction.

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, this novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. It 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. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife. Some of the most influential figures of the era become a part of this narrative.--Publisher description

adult