by Dennis Lehane · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408703168
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«Live by Night» is the historical crime novel by Dennis Lehane, published by Little, Brown in paperback (402 pages, in English).
Boston, 1926: Joe Coughlin, son of a police captain, has turned away from his upbringing to enter organized crime. During a robbery he meets Emma Gould, and that encounter will change his life; his rise in the Prohibition era takes him from jazz-age Boston to Tampa and Cuba, amid smuggling, corruption and violence.
Second installment in the Coughlin series, originally published in 2012. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 2013.
Historical noir novel for readers who enjoy gangster plots, smuggling and the atmosphere of Prohibition.
Dennis Lehane is an American author and screenwriter. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War (1994). Four of his novels have been adapted into films of the same name: Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), and Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Live by Night (2016), both directed by Ben Affleck. His short story "Animal Rescue" was also adapted into the 2014 film The Drop, noted for being the final film role for actor James Gandolfini.
