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Dennis Lehane’s 5 most important books

Newsweek’s 12/17/07 issue asks Dennis Lehane to choose his five most important books:

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude
2. The Wanderers
3. The Great Gatsby
4. The End of the Affair
5. The Last Good Kiss “The Great American Crime Novel,” Lehane says

Martin Scorcese is to direct a movie of Lehane’s Shutter Island, and you can read an except from it on the Newsweek website.

Ken has seven Dennis Lehane books available online

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2 Responses to “Dennis Lehane’s 5 most important books”

  1. Cliff Burns Says:
    December 13, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Well, bless Lehane for choosing a book as fine as James Crumley’s LAST GOOD KISS. Crumley is the BEST crime novelist America has ever produced (hear that, fans of Parker, Hammett, Connelly, et all?) and leaves writers like Lehane very much in the shade. Try some Crumley and you’ll see what I mean…

  2. sharlan Says:
    December 17, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    OK, I confess, I’ve never read any Crumley, but “Kiss” is in the queue as my holiday reading project.

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