![]() ![]() ![]() Sean’s thinking as a cop with a cop’s intuition, “You felt it in your soul, no place else. ![]() He was a huge man, a florid, jowly Kodiak of a human being with an odd dancer’s grace as he squeezed down the narrow hall with cases of beer on his boat-mast shoulders.” He “entered the house, came down the hall with a case of beer on each shoulder. Lehane paints vivid descriptive pictures of his characters such as this description of Annabeth’s father, Theo Savage. The story involves several mysteries that seem to be intertwined, and Lehane does a masterful job of disentangling and resolving them. ![]() He paints scenes of family life of both comradely and combative relationships and sets the story up with Sean, Jimmy, and Dave playing on the street as boys when a strange event occurs that will bring the three of them - Jimmy as a former felon, Sean as a police officer, and Dave as someone very deeply scarred by the opening event who never figures out how to fight off his internal image of the Boy who Escaped from Wolves. Lehane draws a clear social line between Boston neighborhoods of what he calls The Point and The Flats. The movie was directed by Clint Eastwood and starred Kevin Bacon as Sean Devine, Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum, Tim Robbins as Dave Boyle, Laurence Fishburne as Detective Sergeant Whitey Powers. The movie version came out on October 3, 2003, almost exactly 17 years ago. The praise has been effusive for Mystic River since it was published in February, 2001. ![]()
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