FREE LIVE BY NIGHT PDF Dennis Lehane | 512 pages | 06 Jun 2013 | Little, Brown Book Group | 9780349123691 | English | London, United Kingdom Night of the Living Dead | Film review Live by Night helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Live by Night Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks Live by Night telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Live by Night by Dennis Lehane. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous Live by Night, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. Boston, The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the wo Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists Live by Night cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of Live by Night city's Live by Night fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one - neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover - can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published October 2nd by William Morrow first published More Details Original Title. Joe CoughlinEmma Gould. Boston, MassachusettsUnited States. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask Live by Night readers questions about Live by Nightplease sign up. The prohibition a long lasting but still entertaining topic. To me it is not absolutely clear, if the protagonist is really a sociopath or not? Anyway you could just lean back and really enjoy the plot. I am in favour of uncomplicated books! Btw if your a fan of the s, Flemming's Das Schweigen des Lichtes could be something for you. Provided that you understand german. Judith Richardson This answer contains spoilers… Live by Night spoiler [ I believe that the protagonist is Live by Night truly a sociopath. He shows remorse, questions constantly at least after he met Gracielawhy does he need to …more I believe that the Live by Night is not truly a sociopath. Good deeds follow bad money, Joe says. See all 3 questions about Live by Night…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Live by Night Coughlin, 2. Oct 03, Will Byrnes rated it it was amazing Shelves: historical-fictionbooks-of-the-yearLive by Nightliterary-fictionlehane. It is from this moment that we look back over the years to to find out how Joe came to be in such peril. The first thing we see is Joe and two other petty crooks robbing a speakeasy owned by a Boston gangster. During the course of the event a masked Joe meets Emma Gould Live by Night a scene that might someday define the career of some rising young actress. The Bartolo brothers relieved the card players of their weapons. Live by Night her eyes, firelights danced behind the gray. Lehane wanted to write a novel that echoed the mobster movies he grew up with. Anything between the two world wars, the clothes, and the cars, and tommyguns. Maybe it was too much exposure to s,s gangster movies when Live by Night was a Live by Night It was certainly interesting to me to see the seeds Live by Night the growth of what we understand now as the Mafia. This was seen as the end of the independent operator decade. This was fun to look at. But he ran into a bit of interference after having written a few chapters. Boardwalk Empire machine-gunned onto the scene and that meant Lehane would have to focus on something other than whiskey as his substance Maguffin. Splitting his residence between Boston and Tampa, he had already become familiar with Ybor City, a part of Tampa which was a major entry point for prohibition era rum. The over-the-head lightbulb clicked on and it was off to the races. Rum instead of whiskey. And structurally, he decided to trace a reverse route. The rum entered through Florida and worked its way north. Joe Coughlin begins up north and heads south. Lehane found the era appealing for another reason. And it was a time where, I think, there was some sort of ignorance is bliss. You also had a time in which the entire country turned against the law of the land which had to make it fun. Young Joe lands in a Boston jail, where he is befriended by a powerful mob boss, Thomaso Pescatore. Maso wants to leverage his access to Joe to get his dad, Thomas, Deputy Superintendent of the Boston Police, to take care of some things for him. That is where the bulk of the story takes place. This is not some mindless good-guys vs bad-guys shoot-em-up. Lehane is a serious writer and there are larger issues under his microscope here. One is the impact of parents, fathers in particular on their children. Joe must Live by Night his own feelings about parenthood when he becomes a father. A closely related theme is the karma of violence What I have learned is that violence procreates. And the children your violence produces will return to you as savage, mindless things. Lehane offers some thematic touchstones along the way. Thomas gives Joe a watch that has special meaning for him. A similar item is the appearance of a Florida panther, which may or may not actually be present at times, and is certainly a phantom at others, carrying Live by Night about mortality. Joe struggles with his belief system. He is not a stone cold killer, which puts him at a disadvantage with the company he keeps. He feared this was all there was. Sitting in that ridiculous chair looking out the window at the yellow windows canted in the black water, he knew it. He inquires into the beliefs others have about a life beyond Live by Night his journey, and also wonders what might take his place if it turns out there is no god. I dunno. The whole world. What if this is it? Because I need one of those. Just to be safe. Live by Night (Coughlin, #2) by Dennis Lehane Although the film is considered by many to be the prototype for the "couple on the run" genre, and is generally seen as the forerunner to the movie Bonnie and Clydethe first telling of the story was actually the Persons Live by Night Hidingbased on the J. Edgar Hoover memoir of the same title. Robert Altman directed a remake using the original title of the novel, Thieves Like Us The robbers have concocted a plan whereby they secure a car, Live by Night a bank and use part of the money to help T-Dub's sister-in-law get her husband out of prison. Bowie wants money to hire a lawyer, who he believes will be able to easily prove that he was unjustly convicted of murder. The robbery goes fairly smoothly but, along the way, Chicamaw causes Bowie to have a car accident and then shoots and kills a police officer who shows up at the scene. Chicamaw leaves an injured Bowie in the care of Keechie and joins T-Dub in another town. In short order, the two young people fall in love, flee and plan Live by Night live an honest life. On the run, they get married and Keechie gets pregnant. But then Chicamaw and T-Dub return and demand that Bowie come with them for one more job. Bowie is forced to accept but the heist goes wrong: T-Dub ends up dead and Bowie, after a violent argument in the getaway car, leaves Chicamaw stranded. Bowie soon finds that he is unable to escape being hunted by the law and meets a tragic end. After numerous writers tried to make a screenplay out of it, nothing became of it.