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Coronado (Paperback)

by Dennis Lehane (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press (1 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 059305752X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593057520
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 300,804 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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BOSTON HERALD, 31 July 2006

'A brilliant, insightful and intriguing literary voyage'

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'...a writer of commanding gifts, who seems poised on the threshold of even greater accomplishment'
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5.0 out of 5 stars Transcends "crime" writing, 30 Sep 2006
By father ted (Cumbria) - See all my reviews
Lehane has this fantastic ability to describe a backwater town, with people too sick of everything that life has (or maybe hasn't) thrown their way. And then one day, you're in the middle of an half-hearted hustle, which might earn you at most a handful of bucks, and a girl walks into the room and into your life, who makes time stand still and draws the air out of your lungs like a back draft swallows oxygen.

A collection of 5 short stories and then a short play, this is a great great book. You'll want to read it in at most a couple of days. Subtly different to all his novels, for example there's less of the obvious humour of the Kenzie /Gennaro series, but the dialogue, and the search for life's vitality, even when everything seems pretty far gone, is there in spades.

I hadn't discovered Dennis Lehane until quite recently, I'd always thought Robert Ferrigno and James Lee Burke were the best writers around, but DL is easily their peer.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Surprise, 28 Sep 2006
By John PaulCobb "JC" (Surbiton, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I'd always enjoyed Dennis Lehane books. There was a certain safety about the detective series and Mystic River - great thrillers, all set in the familiar Boston environment. I was disappointed in Shutter Island and thought it maight have been because he'd stepped outside of his comfort zone. This though was a great surprise - these short stories have real depth - this is the type of writing that I'd expect from a James Lee Burke novel. The characters have real depth and the stories leave you wanting to know more - always a good sign. More of the same please.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good in patches, 1 Mar 2008
By J. Bowen "Jamie Bowen" (Hampstead London) - See all my reviews
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Dennis Lehane is one of my favorite authors. I could read (and re-read) some of his books a number of times, even though they aren't what you would ever call 'great literature' style fiction.

'Coronado' is a book of short stories, however, and while some of the stories work, some of them don't. I think he's at his best describing grimy inner city living. Where those elements pop up in these stories, the book works well. Where they don't appear, the story is missing something I feel.

I don't know whether I was less satisfied with this book because it didn't live up to what I was expecting from Lehane or if the book isn't that good (I sometimes wonder if I've got the intellect to decide that sort of thing -I rather suspect I don't, I just know what I like), but either way, I was left wanting him to return to stories like Mystic River or Gone Baby Gone, both of which are great books in their way.

Incidentally, The book gets its title from the last story, which is written in the form of a play. I always feel a little like I don't know how to read that sort of writing particularly well, which is why I might be a bit ho-hum about the book. It's something you might wish to consider before buying the book too!
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