![]() ![]() Emma Gould has eyes "pale as very cold gin" behind which lie "something coiled and caged." She is so obviously bad news that it comes as no surprise to the reader when she promptly betrays Joe and breaks his heart. ![]() Then he makes a second mistake: He falls in love with the gangster's moll. The saga begins in 1926, when 19-year-old Joe Coughlin, self-described "outlaw" son of a Boston police honcho, makes the mistake of robbing a gangster's poker game. How can a book packed with macabre acts of violence possibly be dull? Live by Night offers an excellent opportunity to contemplate this question. A woman commits suicide by cutting off her genitals and slashing her own windpipe. How?Ī short list of mishaps that befall characters in Live by Night, Dennis Lehane's new novel: stabbed with a potato peeler ("It sounded like fish parts sucked into a drain") stabbed in the Adam's apple shot in the face ("the exit hole splattered pink all over the ferns") tied to the hood of a car devoured by alligators. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Live By Night Author Dennis Lehane ![]()
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