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Search - Un pays a l'aube (The Given Day) (Coughlin, Bk 1) (French Edition)

Un pays a l'aube - The Given Day - Coughlin, Bk 1 - French Edition
Author: Dennis Lehane

L'Amérique se remet difficilement de la première guerre mondiale. De retour d'Europe, les soldats entendent retrouver leurs emplois, souvent occupés par des noirs en leur absence. Mais l'économie est ébranlée, et la vie devient de plus en plus difficile pour les classes populaires. Sur ce ter... more »reau fleurissent les luttes syndicales et prospèrent les groupes anarchistes et bolcheviques, ainsi que les premiers mouvements de défense de la cause noire.

En 1918, Luther Laurence, jeune ouvrier noir de l'Ohio, est amené par un étonnant concours de circonstances à disputer une partie de base-ball face à Babe Ruth, étoile montante de ce sport. Une expérience amère qu'il n'oubliera jamais.

Au même moment, l'agent Danny Coughlin, fils aîné d'un légendaire capitaine Irlandais de la police de Boston, est chargé d'une mission spéciale par son parrain, le retors lieutenant Mckenna : infiltrer les milieux syndicaux et anarchistes.

A priori Luther et Danny n'ont rien en commun. Le destin va pourtant les réunir à Boston en 1919, l'année de tous les dangers.

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times best-selling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future.

The Given Day tells the story of two families -- one black, one white -- swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.

Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals.

Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife.

Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era -- Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover.

Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time -- including the Spanish Influenza pandemic -- and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives.

French edition

ISBN-13: 9782743619367
ISBN-10: 2743619368
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 759
Edition: Rivages / Thriller
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Publisher: Rivages
Book Type: Paperback
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