Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Dennis Lehane
• Title: Shutter Island
• Publisher: ‎ Harper Perennial; First Edition, First Harper Perennial Edition (August 25, 2009)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 369 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0061898813
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0061898815
• Item Weight: ‎ .50 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 1.1 x 5.2 x 7.9 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (may show some minor discoloration on page edges0
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition, First Harper Perennial Edition

Synopsis:

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 hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels.

Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry?

An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing. . . . Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there?

As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount: How has a barefoot woman escaped the island from a locked room? Who is leaving clues in the form of cryptic codes? Why is there no record of a patient committed there just one year before? What really goes on in Ward C? Why is an empty lighthouse surrounded by an electrified fence and armed guards?

The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane. . . .

About the Author:

Dennis Lehane (born Aug 4th, 1966) is an American author. He has written several novels, including the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also called Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film).

The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystere de la Critique.