Shutter Island
 Book cover | |
| Author | Dennis Lehane |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | no 1 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | April 15 2003 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Mass Market Paperback) |
| Pages | 380 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0688163173 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Shutter Island is a 2003 novel written by Dennis Lehane. A film adaptation of the novel is currently in development.
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]
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]
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.
References
- ^ "Shutter Island". DennisLehane.com. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ^ Dave Weich. "Dennis Lehane Meets the Bronte Sisters". Powell's Books. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
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