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A Drink Before the War

Written by: Dennis Lehane
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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With novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller—while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume—two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro—brilliantly showcasing the unique voice and dark, exhilarating vision of a crime fiction phenomenon.

©1994 Dennis Lehane (P)2011 HarperCollinsPublishers Crime Fiction Fiction Literary Fiction Private Investigators Suspense Detective Mystery Thriller Exciting
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Not aging well

I kept having to remind myself that this was written 30 years ago.
But still . . . I was so uncomfortable at the frequent use of the “n” word. And that serious child SA was minimized with the language of the day. And that a 16 year old (a child!) was basically told to get over his trauma anger (racial and SA) and come up with a solution. Absolutely no recognition of PTSD or generational trauma.
I don’t know? I thought we were wiser than that in the 1990s.
And the gun violence! Teenagers who can’t even buy beer are carrying guns? Is that really the was it is in the States?
Ugh.
I was so disappointed because I like some of the author’s other books, but this left me uncomfortable and feeling I never want to travel to the States.

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