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  • MediaDB / «The day will come" Dennis Lehane: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2013 / For the first time in Russian - an epic bestseller by the recognized master of modern American prose, the author of such benchmark examples of neo-noir as "Mystic River" and "Shutter Island" , filmed by Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese, respectively. “The Day Will Come” was a huge step forward for Lehane, a confident bid for the notorious Great American Novel, which had been awaited for so long - and, it seems, had arrived. This is a family saga with elements of a crime novel, this is a polyphonic chronicle based on real events, this is a story of all-consuming love that will overcome any obstacles. Lehane's depiction of America is entering an era of tremendous change - soldiers returning from the fronts of the First World War, Prohibition is being discussed in Congress, the police are seeking an increase in salaries frozen at the level of thirteen years ago, anarchists are detonating bombs, young J. Edgar Hoover is hatching plans for what will soon turn into FBI. And patrolman Danny Coughlin, the son of a Boston police captain, dreams of a gold detective badge and unsuccessfully tries to heal a heart broken by a whirlwind romance with Nora O'Shea, a maid in his father's house, a woman whose past is fraught with many mysteries.…