{"id":343,"date":"2010-07-19T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-07-19T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T11:36:12","slug":"dennis-lehane-sings-praises-for-pizzolattos-galveston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Lehane sings praises for Pizzolatto&#8217;s &#8220;Galveston&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Lehane writes crime thrillers including the successfully filmed <em>Mystic River<\/em>. His review of Nic Pizzolatto&#8217;s book <em>Galveston<\/em> <a title=\"New York Times Book Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/18\/books\/review\/Lehane-t.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=pizzolatto&amp;st=cse\">appears<\/a> in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; \u201cGalveston\u201d empathizes with its characters to a degree I\u2019m hard pressed  to recall in another recent novel. The addicted thief, the decaying mob  boss, the sun-scorched Nancy who believes that the United  Nations plans to invade Texas and that Louisiana would be a fine  place were it not for all of the Catholics, even the blowhard redneck  who ultimately beats his wife to death (\u201cHow helpless he\u2019d seemed, and  how you could tell that helplessness had made him cruel\u201d) \u2014 all are  brought to life in the fullest blush of their frightened, addled  humanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Galveston<\/em> is available new in hard cover for $25.00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Lehane writes crime thrillers including the successfully filmed Mystic River. His review of Nic Pizzolatto&#8217;s book Galveston appears in the New York Times. &#8230; \u201cGalveston\u201d empathizes with its characters to a degree I\u2019m hard pressed to recall in another &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=343\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dennis Lehane sings praises for Pizzolatto&#8217;s &#8220;Galveston&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[10,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}