“Gut-wrenching force…A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive.” – The New York Times Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and … caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history 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 at the end of World War I.
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I am such a fan of Dennis Lehane that I was surprised to find a title I hadn’t read, so I bought it. What a disappointment!!!!! This was the worst book I’ve read in a long time. I got to page 100 and gave it up.
Terrific book.
I liked this book overall but it was a little slow in the beginning and I didn’t quite see the purpose of the Babe Ruth chapters. However I did love the main story of the two men from totally different backgrounds and the backdrop of Boston history when the unions were starting to take hold.
His characters always feel as if they might be people you actually know, engaged in interesting and affecting activities
I love all of Dennis Lahane’s books. Always grab you right away.
This author is always easy to read and enjoyable for fiction and non-fiction.
Typical Lehane. You pick it up. Two days later you realize you’ve been reading nonstop and savoring every word.
Lohan’s is always an action packed enjoyable read!
I’m not even a baseball fan, but the image of an irrepressible Babe Ruth defying rules and norms to interact with the Black players in the makeshift field near the airport had me hooked from the beginning.
Wonderful historical novel! Great characters!
Mr Lehane has surpassed himself with the McCoughlin saga! Wonderfully fleshed out characters that come alive…I realized as I read this book what sacrifices were made by those who fought and struggled for decent wages and working condtions… What a brutal world it was then! as in all of this author’s books I have read, I can place myself …
An incredible saga of the intersecting lives of two families – one black and one Irish Catholic – during the tumultuous era of Boston after WWI. Great writing, with fascinating, flawed characters – some to love and some to hate, some of each your heart will break for. The beginning was so odd, but that thread wound itself throughout the entire …
One of his best