Thursday, September 18, 2008
'A Vision of Old Boston in All Its Angry Power'
I know what book has just shot up on the Hub Blog Must Read List: Dennis Lehane's new 'The Given Day.' The NYT gives it a sparkling review, saying Lehane has now jumped from excellent crime-genre writer to a 'majestic, fiery epic' novelist with 'shades of Doctorow and Dreiser.' Maybe that's overstating it. But I can't wait to read the novel and determine whether Lehane's ultimate literary dream will come true: Inclusion of one of his books on my 'Boston Reading List.' ...
I know what book has just shot up on the Hub Blog Must Read List: Dennis Lehane's new 'The Given Day.' The NYT gives it a sparkling review, saying Lehane has now jumped from excellent crime-genre writer to a 'majestic, fiery epic' novelist with 'shades of Doctorow and Dreiser.' Maybe that's overstating it. But I can't wait to read the novel and determine whether Lehane's ultimate literary dream will come true: Inclusion of one of his books on my 'Boston Reading List.' ...
