Small mercies : a novel / Dennis Lehane.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062129482 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 299 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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Subject: | Irish Americans > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Organized crime > Fiction. Boston (Mass.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
In 1974 Boston, as a heatwave blankets the city, Mary Pat Fennessey, in a desperate search for her missing daughter, asks questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, who doesnât take kindly to anyone who threatens his business. 150,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"In the summer of 1974, a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of Southie, the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres toold tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city's desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write"-- - HARPERCOLL
Instant New York Times Bestseller
âSmall Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and canât-put-it-down entertainment.â â Stephen King
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic Riverâan all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Bostonâs history.
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of âSouthie,â the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.
One night Mary Patâs teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesnât come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.
The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouchedâasking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who donât take kindly to any threat to their business.
Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the cityâs desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.