The Given Day
The Given Day by
Dennis Lehane ISBN: 0688163181
Published by William Morrow on September 23rd 2008
Pages: 704
Len's Summary: A sprawling novel of post-World-War-One upheaval and uncertainty in Boston, by the author of Mystic River. A fictionalized account of events surrounding the Boston Police strike of 1919, racial and ethnic strife, anarchist and Bolshevik agitation, the catastrophic collapse of the North End molasses tank, the influenza pandemic, Irish politics, and Babe Ruth.
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