![]() ![]() The defining event of the novel occurs when three young boys-Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle-encounter a pair of roving child molesters who pass themselves off as policemen. Mystic River begins in 1975 in the blue-collar Boston community of East Buckingham. ![]() With Mystic River, a passionate, ambitious novel of crime, punishment, and misplaced revenge, Lehane fulfills his early promise and takes his place as an important American writer. ![]() And Dennis Lehane accomplishes all this in prose so dazzling in its deceptive simplicity that readers will find something to appreciate on almost every page.Īfter publishing five books in the popular series featuring Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, Dennis Lehane ( A Drink Before the War, Prayers for Rain) has finally come into his own. Both a thrilling suspense story and a compassionate study of the human heart, it also manages to be funny, heartbreaking and pensive. Mystic River is the novel most writers can only dream of writing. Lehane's deeply scored characterizations of the three former friends carries the soul of this story.if you really want to know when innocence dies, just look these people in the eye. ![]()
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