Shutter Island
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| Shutter Island | |
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| Author | Dennis Lehane |
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| Cover artist | no 1 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Publication date | April 15, 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Mass Market Paperback) |
| Pages | 380 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0688163173 |
Shutter Island is a 2003 novel written by Dennis Lehane. A film adaptation of the novel is currently in development.
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[edit] Premise
The story takes place in 1954 on Shutter Island, home to a psychiatric hospital. U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando, who had committed multiple murders. The marshals search the island for the patient as a hurricane bears down on them, and they find that the hospital has practiced sinister measures during its existence.[1]
[edit] Background
With Shutter Island, author Dennis Lehane sought to write a novel that would be a homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp. Lehane described the novel as a hybrid of the works of the Brontë sisters and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The author wanted to write the main characters in a position where they would lack twentieth-century conventions such as radio communications. He also structured the book to be more taut than his previous book, Mystic River.[2]
[edit] Film adaptation
The novel is being adapted into a film by director Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead. The title, Ashecliffe, is based on the name of the hospital for the criminally insane in the book.
[edit] References
- ^ Shutter Island. DennisLehane.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
- ^ Dave Weich. "Dennis Lehane Meets the Bronte Sisters", Powell's Books. Retrieved on 2008-01-08.
