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416 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.I love this quote. It slices right to the heart of who we are reading about, and even why we are reading about them.
He couldn't remember much of the specifics— just a few details, unconnected—and he had a sense that there hadn't been much of a narrative flow in the first place. Still, the raw texture of it had sunk like razor points into the back of his skull, left him feeling skittish all morning.Mark my words, this quote is prophetic. :-)
You didn’t belong. Don’t you get it? That’s all a neighborhood is: a place where people who belong together live. All others need not fuckin’ apply.Clocking in five of his books over the past few weeks, I've begun to feel like I'm living in a sort of Dennis Lehane-land — an ineluctably dark place that is made all the more so by its striking resemblance to our own.