Coronado Stories Author:Dennis Lehane In this collection of five short stories and a brief play, Lehane assembles a disparate cast, yet each individual takes part in a similar search for something elusive. — Lehane populates his stories with people who are ordinary and reveals the extraordinary complexity of their lives. — Each story introduces a touch of the unlikely or unfortunate i... more »nto otherwise mundane circumstances, then relays the consequences as events unfold.
Stories:
-- Running out of dog
-- ICU
-- Gone down to Corpus
-- Mushrooms
-- Until Gwen
-- Coronado: a play in two acts.
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A small southern town gives birth to a dangerous man with a broken heart and a high-powered rifle....
A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger....
An innocent man is hunted by government agents for an unspecified crime....
A boy and a girl fall in love while ransacking a rich man's house during the waning days of the Vietnam War....
A compromised psychiatrist confronts the unstable patient he slept with....
A father and a son wage a lethal battle of wits over the whereabouts of a stolen diamond and a missing woman....
Along with completely original material, this new collection is a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously published short stories, including "Until Gwen," which was adapted for the stage in 2005 and appears in this book as the play Coronado.
At turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these tales journey headlong into the heart of our national myths--about class, gender, freedom, and regeneration through violence--and reveal that the truth waiting for us there is not what we'd expect.« less
I really like the characters Patrick and Angie that Dennis Lehane writes about. So, this was just so-so for me. I like the author and was desperate for something to read so I figured, why not??!