![]() ![]() The reasons Joe became a gangster, necessarily, aren't too far different from the reasons I became a writer." I gave him certain attributes of myself and then I could understand other aspects of him. I got him when he was a little boy in The Given Day and I understood him. "I think that he’s one of those characters who, for whatever reason, I got him really early. And so, no, I didn’t stay true to almost anything." This book was just, a sort of pedal to the metal desire to write the richest sort of gangster story I could think of. ![]() On What's True About His Character, Joe Coughlin "Live By Night" takes us from prohibition-era Boston, to cigar-making and rum running in Tampa's Ybor neighborhood, and baseball in pre-Castro Cuba. But Joe decides to go in a different direction, living on the wrong side of the law. The Coughlins were a police family, father Thomas an officer, Joe's brother Danny a cop. ![]() The main character Joe Coughlin is a carryover from Lehane's 2008 epic novel "The Given Day." The New York Times says "Live By Night," the new gangster story by Dennis Lehane, is crime noir 101, as taught by the best of its practitioners. ![]() Dennis Lehane's new gangster novel is "Live By Night." (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Facebook Email This article is more than 10 years old. ![]()
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