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Shutter Island audiobook

  • By: Dennis Lehane
  • Narrator: David Strathairn
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: December 09, 2008
  • Language: English
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Shutter Island Audiobook Summary

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” The Washington Post raves, “Brilliantly conceived and executed.” A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.

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Shutter Island Audiobook Narrator

David Strathairn is the narrator of Shutter Island audiobook that was written by Dennis Lehane

David Strathairn reads “Welcome to the Monkey House,” “Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog,” “D.P.,” “The Lie,” and “Adam”.

About the Author(s) of Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane is the author of Shutter Island

Shutter Island Full Details

Narrator David Strathairn
Length 6 hours 2 minutes
Author Dennis Lehane
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date December 09, 2008
ISBN 9780061805066

Subjects

The publisher of the Shutter Island is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the Shutter Island is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780061805066.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Ahmad

August 26, 2021

Shutter Island, Dennis LehaneShutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by Harper Collins in April 2003. A film adaptation was released in February 2010. In 1954, widower U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando (who was incarcerated for drowning her three children). Despite being kept in a locked cell under constant supervision, she has escaped the hospital and the desolate island.In Rachel's room, Teddy and Chuck discover a code that Teddy breaks. He tells Chuck that he believes the code points to a 67th patient, when records show only 66. Teddy also reveals that he wants to avenge the death of his wife Dolores, who was murdered two years prior by a man called Andrew Laeddis, whom he believes is an inmate in Ashecliffe Hospital. The novel is interspersed with graphic descriptions of World War II and Dachau, which Teddy helped to liberate. After Hurricane Carol hits the island, Teddy and Chuck investigate Ward C, where Teddy believes government experiments with psychotropic drugs are being conducted. While separated from Chuck for a short while in Ward C, Teddy meets a patient called George Noyce, who tells him that everything is an elaborate game designed for him, and that Chuck is not to be trusted. ...تاریخ نخستین خوانش: بیست و ششم نوامبر سال 2015میلادیعنوان: جزیره ی شاتر؛ نویسنده: دنیس لهین؛ مترجم: کوروش سلیم زاده؛ تهران، نشرچشمه، 1393؛ در 435ص؛ شابک 9786002294586؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 21مبا اقتباس از این کتاب فیلمی نیز به کارگردانی جناب «مارتین اسکورسیزی» ساخته شده، ماجرای بررسی فرار یک بیمار روانی خطرناک، از سوی دو مارشال ایالات متحده: در سال 1954میلادی است؛ دو مارشال ایالات متحده، «تدی دانیلز»؛ و همکارش «چاک ایول»، برای بررسی فرار یک بیمار روانی خطرناک «سولاندو»، از بیمارستانی در «جزیره شاتر» در نزدیکی «بوستون»؛ با کشتی به آن جزیره مسافرت می‌کنند؛ در هنگام ورود به جزیره، «تد»، با رفتارهای ناخوشایندی از سوی پلیس مستقر در جزیره، روبرو می‌شود؛ «تدی» همسر خود را در یک آتش‌ سوزی عمدی، که توسط یک مجرم روانی بنام «اندرو لدیس»، که او هم در همین جزیره نگهداری می‌شود؛ از دست داده است؛ رفتارهای غیرعادی توسط رئیس بیمارستان روانی، دکتر «جان کاولی»، ادامه می‌یابد؛ در ادامه او احساس می‌کند، که همه ی افراد داخل جزیره، به نحوی در یک بازی که صرفاً برای وی طراحی شده است، بازی می‌کنند؛ رفتارهای غیرعادی، به همراه هوای طوفانی جزیره، باعث می‌شود؛ تا بیماری میگرن «تدی» اوج بگیرد؛ در حین سردردهای مزمن میگرنی، او، تصاویر مربوط به آزادسازی اردوگاه «داخائو»، و کشتار محافظان «آلمانی» آن، به دست وی، و سایر نیروهای «آمریکایی» همرزمش؛ در ذهنش نقش می‌بندد؛ او همچنین تصاویری از همسر خویش مشاهده می‌کند، که به وی می‌گوید: «سولاندو» و همچنین «لادیس»، همچنان در جزیره هستند؛ و از وی می‌خواهد که به جستجو ادامه دهد؛ و ...؛تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 02/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 04/06/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Annemarie

May 05, 2020

It's been two months since I've read this book, but I still can't stop thinking about it. In my opinion, it was absolutely perfect. I didn't feel bored for even a single second. The story was fast paced, but not too fast - it had just the right pace.I fell in love with the characters pretty much right away. I'm not even exactly sure why, all of them just seemed interesting in their own way. Enough of their backstory was given for me to become attached to them and I would love to have even more material with them. (However, I wouldn't actually want to read a sequel. The book ends in the perfect way and any additional scenes would ruin it)Somehow I was able to avoid spoilers. And I'm so glad I did, because this definitely made the story more exciting and suspenseful. So going into more detail in my review would be pointless. Just read the book and be amazed! (As a side note: The movie is absolutely amazing as well and one of the best book-to-movie adaptions I have ever seen.)

zuza_zaksiazkowane

December 07, 2021

Gdybym najpierw nie widziała filmu, dałabym pewnie pięć gwiazdek

Bill

February 05, 2008

The night I finished this, my mind was left reeling from it for a couple of hours and the next day I was unable to get it out of my head. Shutter Island is a departure from the Kenzie/Gennaro series andit's one of those novels that will certainly leave you pondering the whole story once you're finished it.The less you know about the story, the better. Suffice it to say, this is an excellent read and there are very few novels I have read that made my head buzz for hours after. Don't miss this, read it before the movie comes out.

Mario

March 20, 2017

...he hated how fucked up and obscene the world and everything in it had become.Well... fuck. I decided to wait for at least one day before writing this review because I needed time to process this book. But even though more than 24 hours passed, I still haven't processed it even a bit. Not in a long time did I read a book that grabbed me as Shutter Island did. When I was reading this book, and I had to put it down to do some other stuff, it followed me everywhere. When I wasn't reading it, I surely was thinking about it. Shutter Island crawled under my skin, and it will stay there for a long time. Even now, when I finished it, I'm sure that it will be somewhere in the back of my mind for a long time. I'm not going to say anything about the plot, because I think that this book should be read without knowing anything about it. If you are planning to read this book, just read it without researching what it is about, and have it in mind that even if you guess the twist, don't let that take away the enjoyment of reading it. I guessed one part of the twist somewhere in the middle, but what blew my mind was what that twist did to the characters in the story. Not everything is about the twist. This was my Lehane's second book (I read Mystic River a while back), and it's definitely my favorite book by him so far. Truly an amazing book, that will stay with me for a long, long time.

Francesc

July 20, 2019

Muy buen libro. Lástima que en su parte final decaiga y sea tan previsible. No me ha dejado un buen sabor de boca.A pesar de esto, me ha gustado la localización y consigue meterte de lleno en la historia.

Lou

November 06, 2011

An isolated island, a raging hurricane, a locked room, secret codes, a mental hospital, and rumors of mysterious medical experiments frame the story. Written in a very different style compared to Lehane's previous novels Mystic river and Gone baby gone. The plot is not the simplest of plots, i was scratching my head intrigued because the story flips through past present and surreal. It is a disorienting, complex story grounded in the reality of the times...cold war USA in 1954. From pondering over the story carefully i find myself laughing now at how Lehane whipped and twisted the story until you are dumb founded just when you think you solved it you realize the opposite. You sense the feeling of being cheated in the story because when you start you set out wanting to finding the missing person but realize all is not what it seems, well i have to take my hat of to Lehane's creativity. http://more2read.com/?review=shutter-island-by-dennis-lehane

Maria

April 18, 2018

Magistral! Una historia muy pero muy adictiva. Negra. Amarga. Creíble en su locura. Excelente.... Sin duda seguiré a este autor de muy cerca.

Emma

May 18, 2017

Well. I've only recently started reading a bit more in the thriller genre than I have in decades and I think it's safe to say I'm out of practise! This book was SO SO good, I can't tell you. About half way through I felt I had had enough *thrilling* for the day and put the book down. Tried to read something else...my mind kept coming back to it...picked it up again....got spooked....walk away Emma, walk away...it's getting late, it's dark, it's raining hard...the lunatics are taking over the asylum....mwahhaha...That Dennis Lehane is a clever bloke. He manipulated me! And it also it WAS dark and rainy while I was reading it. My levels of fear, stress, panic and paranoia matched the lead characters.Needless to say I finished this in a day(and well into the night) and was so overexcited by the whole thing I could barely sleep.Also needless to say, and to my shame and embarrassment, I didnt pick up a single clue! Not a one. Dennis got me good!This was my first book by this author. On reading others' reviews, I find to my astonishment, that this is not considered his best work, although it does have 5 star ratings from practically everyone. It was a great place for me to start however because I love historical fiction and this hooked me in even more. New-to-me author, long list of published books by him, happy days...*rubs hands in anticipation*. Next!#recommended

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