Live by Night
- Published
- 2 October 2012
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9780062270931
- Type
- novel
About this book
Live by Night followed four years later, on October 2, 2012, tracing Joe Coughlin's rise from small-time hood to Prohibition-era rum runner across 432 pages, and went on to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel.
Key facts about Live by Night
Dennis Lehane wrote Live by Night, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2 October 2012. The book has 432 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780062270931 to find the main one.
Live by Night is book 2 of 3 in the Coughlin Trilogy series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with The Given Day (2008). World Gone By is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 March 2015.
Additionally, Dennis Lehane writes Kenzie & Gennaro as a separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction and historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Small Mercies is the latest published Dennis Lehane book on file, from 25 April 2023.
About Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane was born in 1965 in the Dorchester neighbourhood of Boston, the child of Irish immigrants, and grew up in the working-class world that would become the setting for most of his fiction. He studied creative writing at Eckerd College and Florida International University before publishing his first novel, A Drink Before the War, in 1994, introducing private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. See every Dennis Lehane book in order.
Its place in Coughlin Trilogy
Live by Night is book 2 in the Coughlin Trilogy series. It follows The Given Day. It is followed by World Gone By. See the full Coughlin Trilogy reading order.
The Coughlin Trilogy is Dennis Lehane's sweeping departure from contemporary Boston crime fiction into twentieth-century American history, following the Coughlin family -- Irish-American, Boston police -- and in particular Danny and later Joe Coughlin across three decades of Prohibition, organised crime, and social upheaval. The Given Day (2008) opens with the 1919 Boston police strike and the influenza pandemic, weaving Babe Ruth and real historical figures into a story about labour, race, and the limits of…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062270931