Shutter Island Graphic Novel
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Based on the acclaimed New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane (Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone), the gripping psychological thriller Shutter Island is now a full-color graphic novel. The tense and twisting story that inspired the blockbuster film directed by Academy Award–winner Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio has been given a breathtaking new life by internationally renowned artist Christian De Metter. Shutter Island, the graphic novel, was an Official Selection at the 2009 Angouleme International Comics Festival, Europe’s top comics exposition.
Dennis Lehane's masterpiece of mystery and suspense—brought to life for the first time as a graphic novel
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to find a mass murderer who has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane. As an intense hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, the marshals are forced to piece together clues to a shocking puzzle hidden within Shutter Island, taking them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears...
Filled with his trademark grit, insight, and pathos, Shutter Island is vintage Dennis Lehane. Now adapted for the first time as a graphic novel by internationally renowned artist Christian De Metter, this riveting story brilliantly captures our capacity for depravity and deliverance.
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Critical Praise for
Shutter Island Graphic Novel
“Startlingly original . . . instantly cinematic. . . . This is a deft, suspenseful thriller that unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its final moments. When it comes to keeping readers exactly where he wants them, Mr. Lehane offers a bravura demonstration of how it’s done.”
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New York Times
“If we could bring back Edgar Allen Poe and equip him with today’s postmodern bag of tricks, he might give us a tale as unexpected and unsettling as Shutter Island. . . . The novel is brilliantly conceived and executed. . . . Its shocking outcome kept me awake, deep into the night as I began to grasp what the author had done to my innocent mind.”
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Washington Post Book World
“The ride this novel provides is as good as entertainment gets.”
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Miami Herald
“Combines the claustrophobia of . . . Agatha Christie . . . with the creepiness of a good Stephen King yarn. . . . Good luck putting this one down.
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San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
“A lollapalooza of a corkscrew thriller…Lehane has produced a brilliantly far–fetched page–turner that is sure to be the most talked–about thriller of the year.”
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Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Shutter Island carries an ending so shocking yet so faithful to what has come before, that it will go down as one of the most aesthetically right resolutions ever written. . . . There are mysteries within mysteries in this novel, some as obvious as the numerical codes that the missing patient leaves behind… some as deep as the most profound fears of the human heart. There is no mystery, however, about how good this book is; like Mystic River, it’s a
tour de force.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Lehane is red hot… another blistering page-turner...Lehane throws in one mind-bending plot twist after another in a psychological thriller that will leave readers in suspense right up to the end. A master of the adroit psychological detail, Lehane makes the horrors of the mean streets pale in comparison to the workings of the human mind.”
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Booklist, starred review
“Lehane has crafted a thriller as exciting as an elaborate video game. . . . .If you like books that will make great movies, then this one is for you.”
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People
“ pure adrenaline rush...chilling…Shutter Island is all about pulling you in and not letting go until its shocking, wrenching conclusion. At that point, exhausted and thrilled, you want to start over…Lehane works claustrophobia so well you can practically feel the walls closing in, giving Shutter Island a dark, disturbing atmosphere of mortal danger and creeping paranoia…The ride this novel provides is as good as entertainment gets.”
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Miami Herald
“Welcome to the Twilight Zone, circa 1954…Shutter Island is atmospheric and tension-fraught, and Lehane continues to write like a demon angel…With its nightmarish overtones, it’s not a book to start before bedtime. Even if you finish before dawn, Shutter Island will trouble your sleep.”
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Orlando Sentinel
“Startlingly original…instantly cinematic… unfolds with increasing urgency until it delivers a visceral shock in its final moments.”
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New York Times
“There is no mystery…about how good this book is; like Mystic River, it’s a
tour de force.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A lollapalooza of a corkscrew thriller…sure to be the most talked–about thriller of the year.”
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Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Nightmarish…it’s not a book to start before bedtime. Even if you finish before dawn, Shutter Island will trouble your sleep.”
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Orlando Sentinel
“Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy, breakneck ride…utterly absorbing… is an express train with no local stops…engrossing.”
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Boston Globe
“By the time you get to the brilliant twist at the end you’ll be questioning your own sanity. . . . Chilling, thrilling and so clever you’ll be chewing it over long after the final page is turned.”
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Mirror
“A moody, atmospheric mystery that combines the claustrophobia of an Agatha Christie whodunit with the creepiness of a good Stephen King yarn. . . . Good luck putting this one down.”
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San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
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