Shutter Island

by

385 pages

English language

Published Sept. 11, 2004 by HarperTorch.

ISBN:
9780380731862
OCLC Number:
55073256

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4 stars (1 review)

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashecliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.

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reviewed Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

I wish I read this before seeing the movie.

4 stars

I've read a few of this author's books and enjoyed them all, but I found Shutter Island to be the most suspenseful and poignant, even having seen the movie previously. I wish I'd been able to read it without knowing the ending (and without seeing DiCaprio's face the whole time), might have been a totally different experience.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • United States marshals
  • Islands
  • Brainwashing
  • Psychiatric hospital patients
  • Drug testing
  • Eugenics

Places

  • Massachusetts