Dennis Lehane
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"Dennis Lehane" is an American author. He has written several novels, including A Drink Before the War and Mystic River (novel)/Mystic River, which was later made into Mystic River (film)/a film. Another novel, Gone, Baby, Gone (novel)/Gone, Baby, Gone, was also adapted into Gone Baby Gone/a film. His novel Shutter Island was adapted into a Shutter Island (film)/film by Martin Scorsese in 2010. Lehane is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Dave has a moment when he's young where he tries to talk to his mother, who just shuts him down, ... From that point on, Dave had to create someone else; that's where his problems begin. That's the tragedy of his character: He's been hiding it for too long. He doesn't know himself.

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In the Flats, half the people didn't have lawns, and the fences sagged, ... When you wanted to party, you partied, because ... you sure as hell deserved it.

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I had a 97 mile-an-hour fast ball, and I couldn't hit the plate. Like Nuke LaLoosh.

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An inner-city, working-class kid.

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