![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike Lehane's other works-which take place in the Boston area and deal with many of the social issues facing the poor white residents of Southie and Dorchester, like child abuse, gentrification, and drugs- Shutter Island takes place off the coast of Boston, and in the past. ![]() In order to write the novel, Lehane researched psychiatry and mental illness in depth and credits three books in particular for his research: Mad In America by Robert Whittaker, Gracefully Insane by Alex Beam, and Boston Harbor Islands by Emily and David Kale. Shutter Island deals in depth with different psychiatric conditions and disorders, including pure psychopathy, delusions and bipolar disorder. The book has an intriguing and exceptionally intricate plot and the reader is confronted by two equally plausible conclusions at the end. Assigned a new partner, Chuck Aule, Teddy is ostensibly investigating the disappearance of a patient, but is also investigating rumors of Ashecliffe's use of controversial radical treatments. ![]() Marshal Teddy Daniels as he travels to Shutter Island, the location of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Set in the summer of 1954, with memories of World War Two still fresh, the novel follows U.S. Shutter Island is a thriller written in 2003 by Dennis Lehane. ![]()
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