![]() ![]() ![]() And you can notice that “set in motion” and “first crossed paths” are odd ways of hinting at the connection between Joe and this mysterious Emma. You can see that Joe’s life, “good or bad,” has spanned a wide moral spectrum. You can wonder what Joe did to earn himself the cement-on-a-tugboat treatment. There is an inviting degree of mystery to this paragraph full of foreshadowing. In the same paragraph he lets Joe realize “that almost everything of note that had ever happened in his life - good or bad - had been set in motion the morning he first crossed paths with Emma Gould.” “Some years later, on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico, Joe Coughlin’s feet were placed in a tub of cement,” Dennis Lehane writes in this perfect specimen of an opening sentence. ![]() “Live by Night” is Crime Noir 101, as taught by the best of its current practitioners. ![]()
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