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In Dennis Lehane’s ‘Since We Fell
By Dennis Lehane
418 pages. Ecco. $27.99.
“Since We Fell” is the first Dennis Lehane novel written from a woman’s point of view. She’s a tough character, but it’s a miracle that she can get canada goose sale out of bed in the morning. Elizabeth made a sadistic, narcissistic game out of not letting Rachel know the identity of her father.
Rachel grew up thinking of life as “a series of detachments,” which is a way of describing Lehane’s atypical “Since We Fell,” too. The sequences are all parts of Rachel’s life, but that doesn’t initially glue them together; she is struggling to figure out who she is, and so are we. Only over time does the larger trajectory of canada goose store “Since We Fell” become clear.
It all makes much more sense in buy canada goose jacket retrospect than it does as the book’s uk canada goose first chapters unfold. Here Canada Goose online are some of its early developments: Rachel devotes herself to solving the mystery of her father. It’s complicated, and it leads the book into such unlikely areas as Luminism, the buy canada goose jacket cheap 19th century style of American landscape painting. Lehane (“Mystic River,” “Gone, Baby, Gone”) has said that he can’t connect with white male working class crime stories any more. Even so, this is a long way from home.
The father question is Canada Goose sale answered, and not in canadian goose jacket ways likely to improve canada goose factory sale Rachel’s mental state. She’s the daughter of a man whose canada goose uk outlet smile “wasn’t an canada goose clearance invitation, it was a moat,” who brings to mind “the profligate poet, the drug addled painter genius, the musician who’d die in a car crash the day after he signed the big record contract.” So she fits right in with canada goose black friday sale other tormented Lehane characters, who have two strikes against them cheap canada goose uk before they even set foot on the field.
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Already subject to panic attacks, which are exacerbated by the horrors she saw in Haiti, Rachel stays in her Canada Goose Coats On Sale apartment for 18 months. Sebastian drops out of her life. And it leads to Rachel becoming reacquainted with Mr. Right, Brian Delacroix, who she’d canada goose clearance sale known casually and now looks at with new interest. He is tall, dark and handsome, and he is the first lover who really wanted to help her. Rachel falls gratefully into his arms, and they are married.
Their marriage ushers in a string of canada goose coats wall to wall spoiler alerts. Suffice it to say that this second part of “Since We canada goose uk black friday Fell” canada goose is sharply different from the first. Instead, it’s packed with signs that Lehane sold this story to the movies, which he did, in 2015, and that he loves canada goose coats on sale the Hitchcock classics Canada Goose Outlet that prey cheap Canada Goose on mistrust. Suddenly, he begins delivering nonstop suspense only loosely rooted in Rachel’s story and its foundations. “World Gone By,” the elegiac 2015 canada goose uk shop novel that preceded this one, had a tragic grandeur that is never approached by this less credible, more action oriented thriller. But “World Gone By” had none of the tricks, shocks, visual effects, mad coincidences and disguises that propel “Since Canada Goose Online We Fell.” And Lehane is no slouch at those, either. He remains one of the great, diabolical thriller kings who seems intimately acquainted with darkness and can make it seep from the page or screen. A line of dialogue like “Oh, ho, ho, my man, let’s not push me tonight,” delivered with brittle levity, carries more menace than any outright threat could.
Rachel works extremely well as the focus of the book. Lehane has always written wrenching female characters into his stories, and he has no trouble giving center stage to one. https://www.canadagooseoutlet4online.com The question is never whether she will escape her past. We know she’s got the moxie to do it, but where is she Canada Goose Parka headed? Her options narrow as the book becomes more crime centric and throws her into life or death situations rather than contemplative ones. uk canada goose outlet But she’s Canada Goose Jackets as much of a pragmatist as anyone Lehane ever dreamed up. She comes a long way through the twists and turns of “Since We Fell,” which takes its title from a love song about desperate dependency. By the end of it, she’s learned how to depend on herself.