FIRSTS Magazine November, 2010, Volume 20, Number 9 (Dennis Lehane)

Robin H. Smiley. Softcover. Very Good. FIRSTS: The Book Collector's Magazine. November 2010, Volume 20, Number 9 issue, an invaluable magazine resource for book collectors. Issue focuses on Dennis Lehane, author of A Drink Before the War, his first novel, which won the Shamus Award. He has published twelve more novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and become international bestsellers: Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; Mystic River; Shutter Island; The Given Day; Moonlight Mile; Live by Night; and World Gone By. His recent work is a stand-alone novel, Since We Fell.Four of his novels – Live by Night, Mystic River, Gone, Baby, Gone, and Shutter Island – have been adapted into films. A fifth, The Drop, was adapted by Lehane himself into a film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini in his final role. Lehane was a staff writer on the acclaimed HBO series The Wire and also worked as a writer-producer on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and the Netflix series, Bloodline. Bibliography of first editions included. Issue also highlights the Hard Case Crime series which recreates, in editorial form and content, the style of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s and '50s. The collection includes both reprints of books from the pulp era and new novels written for the collection. A checklist of the books published in the series through 2011 is included (HCC-001 through HCC-069). Clean copy with minimal shelf wear. 56 pp. 11" x 8 1/2". Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.