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Coronado (2006)

door Dennis Lehane

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Now available with a contemporary look, a must-have collection of riveting short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island.

"Locations are vivid and crisp, characters are memorable and, most importantly, the story lines dig into you and leave their mark." â??Boston Herald

When it comes to contemporary crime fiction there's no territory quite as dangerous and unpredictable as that of New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane. These five short stories and a play are Lehane at his visceral best.

In "Running Out of Dog," a vet returning from Vietnam is asked to redirect the violent skills he learned overseas to deal with his hometown's rampant population of strays. "ICU" follows a hunted man who finds refuge in the oddest place imaginable. Surprises await a gang of Texas high-school football jocks who lay siege to a luxury home in the suburbs in "Gone Down to Corpus." And in "Mushrooms," a simple theft triggers a series of murders that forces a disillusioned young girl to consider her next move. This collection also includes "Until Gwen" and its stage adaptation, Coronado, which expands on the trenchant tale of a morally bankrupt conman father, his ill-fated son, and the woman they have in common.

In Lehane's capable hands, each story faces unflinchingly the darkest depths of the human experienceâ??sin and redemption, loss and longing, flesh and bloodâ??delivering a knockout punch that'll have readers reel… (meer)

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  RCornell | Oct 19, 2023 |
The bad shorts even out the good. Started strong, ended almost as strong. Fell by the wayside in between. ( )
  ilkjen | Jan 21, 2022 |
Quel ennui...alors que j'ai adoré tous les livres de cet auteur...Aucun intérêt. ( )
  FaGoo | Jun 8, 2020 |
My only previous exposure to Lehane is Mystic River, which I thought fell a bit short of its high aspirations. This short story collection, which is quite varied in its plots, is quite satisfying, however. And it manages to be pretty profound more than once. Recommended!

I continue to stare in disbelief at the blurb the publisher chose for the cover of my paperback edition of this book, which comes from USA Today: "An apt reminder that the master of crime and literary fiction is also a proficient short story writer."

PROFICIENT!!!!!!?????????? Is that supposed to be an endorsement for someone to shell out their money? What idiot put this on the cover? It might be an exaggeration to call Lehane a master of the short story or something like that, but he is way more than proficient. Also 1/3 of the book is a play, not a short story...

My individual reviews follow.

Running Out of Dog ***1/2
Very strange story, set in South Carolina, which doesn't seem like Lehane's home turf, that centers around a woman married to one man, having an affair with another, and idolized by a third--whose current job is to shoot dogs before they run onto I-95 and spoil the town's tourist business. After the last two books I have reviewed, this story seems a bit artificial, but it is effective and, in fact, reminiscent of John D. MacDonald's non-Travis McGee stuff.

ICU ****
This is another strange, but affecting, story of a man who is being pursued for something that the reader isn't told about and that the man himself may not even know. He takes refuge in a hospital complex, and there he discovers something special, a different way perhaps to live. Nothing particularly happens in this story; it is all about moods and atmosphere, but it works.

Gone Down to Corpus ****1/2
This story is much more than "proficient" -- it gets to the heart of teenage anxiety about the future in a very subtle way, and it leaves the reader wondering about what becomes of these characters after the story ends. Very very well done.

Mushrooms ****1/2
A very dark and powerful story with a nice finish. It's too short to really describe without giving anything away, but I did discover that New Hampshire apparently has nice beaches!

Until Gwen ****
A man just out of prison is greeted by his father--also a crook--and a hunt begins. Memorable and very dark.

Coronado: A Play in Two Acts ****1/2
This expansion of "Until Gwen" clears up any ambiguity in that story. It is a little overdone at times, but in the end it is a hell of a story and we're glad to know it. ( )
  datrappert | May 16, 2020 |
This collection includes five short stories and one play, and the book can be divided almost in half, page-wise, between the former and the latter. Used to Lehane's affinity for Boston, I was surprised by the Southern settings, but noir works here equally well as there. Many of the stories are linked only by this general place and a general time: post-Vietnam. The work seems best discussed in its pieces.

"Running Out of Dog" -- A Vietnam vet comes home to his small South Carolina town and finds an old buddy (who did not go to war) in crisis. The foreboding escalates in this story until you sit reading and waiting for violence to explode off the pages. The conclusion is almost anticlimactic, but the awfulness manages to haunt anyway. A bleak look at the psychology of a man whose "hope came too late" and therefore became dangerous.

"ICU" -- An everyman is harassed by a nebulous government agency for an unnamed crime until he hides ... in a hospital. I've never read a story like this before. It's absurd, yet absurdity seems to be the point. For me, somehow, it worked, maybe because the desperation for human connection overshadows the odd setup.

"Gone Down to Corpus" -- The simplest, most realistic of the stories. A group of low-class high school football players vandalize the home of their rich teammate who lost them the game that would have made a difference in their lives (but to him didn't matter one bit). It doesn't have much of an ending, which seems to be the point.

"Mushrooms" -- A girl who's lost too much to the gang wars in her neighborhood decides on vengeance. She reminds me a lot of the protagonist from the previous story--two kids without hope, with only anger to hold onto. Or, as the stories leave you wondering, maybe not ... but probably yes.

"Until Gwen" -- A young man's father picks him up from prison. This is my favorite of the stories. Layered, chilling, suspenseful, sad. The dialogue in this one just crackles. The father/son relationship is taut and terrible. Something about this story stands out as sharper than any of the others--sharper writing, sharper characters.

"Coronado" (the play) -- Two stars to this. Strong dislike. Which is interesting, since it's built from the story I liked the most. But the attempt to draw out the exchanges in the story falls flat and deadens their impact. A comparison between this story and play is a great study in the rule that economy wins. In addition, I found the scenes between Doctor and Patient to be positively scenery-chewing and the revelation of all the character connections to be forced. I couldn't go back to the beginning and see, yes, aha, it was there all the time, but rather felt that various characters' incarnations contradicted each other without explanation. I'd venture to guess the reason for this is that Lehane's greatest strength as a writer is not his dialogue. Not to say he isn't great at it, but part of what makes the dialogue work in his novels (especially Kenzie & Gennaro) is the richness of the narration surrounding it. His characters have deep, human, sarcastic, poignant thought lives that make them who they are; to prove this, one only has to compare the book and film versions of [b:Mystic River|21671|Mystic River|Dennis Lehane|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1407109549s/21671.jpg|1234249].

As a Lehane fan, I'm glad to have read this piercing little collection, but the stories are far superior to the play. ( )
  AmandaGStevens | Mar 2, 2019 |
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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML:

Now available with a contemporary look, a must-have collection of riveting short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island.

"Locations are vivid and crisp, characters are memorable and, most importantly, the story lines dig into you and leave their mark." â??Boston Herald

When it comes to contemporary crime fiction there's no territory quite as dangerous and unpredictable as that of New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane. These five short stories and a play are Lehane at his visceral best.

In "Running Out of Dog," a vet returning from Vietnam is asked to redirect the violent skills he learned overseas to deal with his hometown's rampant population of strays. "ICU" follows a hunted man who finds refuge in the oddest place imaginable. Surprises await a gang of Texas high-school football jocks who lay siege to a luxury home in the suburbs in "Gone Down to Corpus." And in "Mushrooms," a simple theft triggers a series of murders that forces a disillusioned young girl to consider her next move. This collection also includes "Until Gwen" and its stage adaptation, Coronado, which expands on the trenchant tale of a morally bankrupt conman father, his ill-fated son, and the woman they have in common.

In Lehane's capable hands, each story faces unflinchingly the darkest depths of the human experienceâ??sin and redemption, loss and longing, flesh and bloodâ??delivering a knockout punch that'll have readers reel

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