Shutter Island: A Novel
by Dennis Lehane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0688163173
- ISBN 13
- 9780688163174
- Seller
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About This Item
From front DJ flap: "Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a urricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems."
Book - Very Good- condition. Black paper over boards with "WM" imprint, Red spine w gold gilt. Dye bleed at bottom of first few pages, otherwise clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Good- condition. Small closed tear at top corner, one inch closed tear at bottom corner. Some rubbing/bumping.
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325 pages.
Synopsis
Shutter Island is a 2003 novel written by Dennis Lehane. A film adaptation of the novel directed by Martin Scorsese was scheduled for release in October of 2009 but was pushed back until February 2010.
Reviews
TITLE OF THIS REVIEW: "Anagram Your Way to a Solution." *** If you have watched SHUTTER ISLAND (the 2010 Martin Scorsese movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio) before reading the novel, then you already know every "spoiler" in this "spoiler-rich" book. *** This much reviewed novel by Dennis Lehane is rightly acclaimed. Read it! It is almost impossible to review it, however, without giving away its ending, and that ending should not be spoiled. I will therefore say little. According to the novel's Prologue, the narrative is taken from the May 3, 1993 journal of Dr Lester Sheehan, psychiatrist. It describes four "late summer" days in September 1954, almost 40 years earlier. The narrator, Dr Sheehan, will soon lose his wife to illness. His own health is not great. He forgets a lot. But the story of Shutter Island is one he must set down before it is too late. *** The tale, we are told by Dr Sheehan, is about four people and an island overrun with huge rats. Every day some rats hopelessly try to swim across waters near Boston to freedom on the mainland. They never make it. But Teddy Daniel, the novel's principal character, would cheer their effort. Teddy once had "a poor dead wife, Dolores Chanal." Two other key characters, described as "twin terrors" are Rachel Solando and Andrew Laeddis. *** At novel's beginning two U.S. Marshals, Teddy Daniel and Chuck Aule are arriving by ferry on isolated island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the violent criminally insane. This is a Federal facility. And a patient committed to it by a Federal judge had escaped from her cell the night before. *** I will say no more, other than to suggest that you are about to enter into a world of mindgames, codes and most especially anagrams. Think about anagrams really hard and virtually on every page. And further spoiler spoileth not! Enjoy. -OOO-
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- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2000
- Title
- Shutter Island: A Novel
- Author
- Dennis Lehane
- Format/Binding
- Paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688163173
- ISBN 13
- 9780688163174
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 325
- Keywords
- fiction, mystery, Teddy Daniels, Ashecliffe Hospital, psychiatry, drug experimentation, lighthouse
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Fiction - Adult;
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