Shutter Island
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| Author | Dennis Lehane |
| Cover artist | none |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Publication date | April 15, 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Mass Market Paperback) |
| Pages | 380 |
| ISBN | 0688163173 |
| OCLC Number | 51969184 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 21 |
| LC Classification | PS3562.E426 S55 2003 |
Shutter Island is a 2003 novel written by Dennis Lehane. A film adaptation of the novel directed by Martin Scorsese was scheduled for release in October 2009 but was pushed back until February 2010.
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[edit] Premise
The story takes place in 1954 on Shutter Island, home to a psychiatric hospital called Ashecliffe. U.S. Deputy Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando, who had committed multiple murders. The deputy 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. The story unfolds with Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule on the ferry to Ashecliffe Hospital on Shutter Island. They've arrived at the Island and were told to surrender their firearms. Many strange events occur through out their stay at Shutter Island, leaving Teddy to question the people around him, the island, and his partner. [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] Adaptations
[edit] Film
The novel is being adapted into a film by director Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as the two Marshals, and Ben Kingsley as Doctor Cawley. Michelle Williams, Max Von Sydow and Ted Levine also star.
[edit] Graphic novel
The story has also been reworked into a graphic novel published by William Morrow, with art by Christian De Metter (ISBN 0061968579).[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Shutter Island". DennisLehane.com. http://www.dennislehanebooks.com/books/shutterisland/. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ^ Dave Weich. "Dennis Lehane Meets the Bronte Sisters". Powell's Books. http://www.powells.com/authors/lehane.html. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ^ Boucher, Geoff (January 1, 2010). "'Shutter Island' is a different nightmare in graphic novel form". Hero Complex (LA Times). http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/01/shutter-island-dives-into-a-new-madness-in-graphic-novel-form.html. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
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