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An epic tale set at the end of World War I follows the experiences of a family whose lives mirror the political unrest of an America caught between its well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. Police officer Danny Coughlin, the latest in a long line of cops, is a fresh face on the force and anxious to impress his father. Thus, he agrees to go undercover to infiltrate a group of anarchists involved in labor strikes. As Danny penetrates this underground world, however, he befriends people such as a beautiful Irish immigrant and a black servant-turned-criminal who force him to re-evaluate his beliefs. Incorporating real historic events, such as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the 1919 Boston police strike, the author "captures the sense of a country coming of age."
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Literature, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Boston (Mass.)., Boston (Mass.). Police Dept, Large print books, Police Strike, Boston, Mass., 1919, Boston (Mass.). Police Dept., Irish Americans, Police, Fathers and sons, Boston (Mass.). Police Department, Historical fiction, Police Strike (Boston, Massachusetts : 1919) fast (OCoLC)fst01404583, Boston (mass.), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, psychological, Fathers and sons, fiction, Irish americans, fiction, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2008-10-12, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, historical, general, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-11-22, New York Times reviewed, History, Grève de la police, Boston, Mass., 1919, Romans, nouvelles, African Americans, Pères et fils, Américains d'origine irlandaise, Noirs américains, Padre e hijo, Novela, Afronorteamericanos, Novela policíaca, American fiction, Translations into Portuguese, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, Conditions socialesPlaces
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Cualquier Otro día / the Given Day
2020, Salamandra Black, Salamandra
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The given day
2012, William Morrow
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The Given Day: A Novel
September 15, 2009, Harper Perennial
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The Given Day: a novel
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Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day 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. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife.Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era — Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover.Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time — including the Spanish Influenza pandemic — and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.
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