Shutter Island Contributor(s): Lehane, Dennis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061898813 ISBN-13: 9780061898815 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: In a masterful departure from the Boston-based hard-boiled mysteries he's known for, New York Times bestselling author Lehane (Mystic River) offers an atmospheric psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane. In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital, to investigate the disappearance of a murderer, Rachel Solando, loose somewhere on the remote and barren island. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades ?with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves. Nothing is what it seems and Teddy begins to doubt everything ?his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Thrillers - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.3" W x 8.02" (0.65 lbs) 400 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 136223 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, "Startlingly original." The Washington Post raves, "Brilliantly conceived and executed." A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything you've ever read before. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lehane, Dennis: - Dennis Lehane is the author of ten previous novels--including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day--as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He lives in California with his family. |