The Given Day
- Published
- 16 September 2008
- Pages
- 720
- ISBN-13
- 9780061779084
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Given Day opened the Coughlin Trilogy on September 16, 2008, its 720 pages -- by far the longest of the three -- weaving the 1919 Boston police strike and the influenza pandemic around the Coughlin family and real historical figures like Babe Ruth.
Key facts about The Given Day
Dennis Lehane wrote The Given Day, a novel on our list. It has been out since 16 September 2008. The book has 720 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780061779084 to find the main one.
The Given Day is book 1 of 3 in the Coughlin Trilogy series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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
The Given Day is book 1 in the Coughlin Trilogy series. It is followed by Live by Night. 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 9780061779084